Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simic

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Arthur Keith

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Edward Gibbon

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Ian McDonald

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

Sean Connery

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

Martin Van Buren

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

George Catlin

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

Jill Tarter

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Alain Juppe

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.