Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bronfman

Over 90% of participants are satisfied with the Birthright experience.

Anna Julia Cooper

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Byron Katie

Freedom is our birthright.

Brene Brown

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Krista Tippett

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Eric Liu

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

Chris Hadfield

I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.

Michael Brady

I am responsible and I take full accountability, but I will not be deterred by some small special interest group in this town who feel they have some birthright to make all the decisions in this town,

David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

Alexander Bunegin

We have a job. We have money like everyone else. As soon as possible, we get citizenship.

David Thompson

These immigrants that come here, their dream is to cross the border, get their citizenship and actually live here.

David Novak

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

Eric Liu

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Erwin McManus

Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.

Aaron Schock

Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

Russell Pearce

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

George Pataki

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

Felix Magath

We were so sure we were the better team, we were so sure we would score, then we were handed one ourselves.

Chris Bell

We've been handed an incredible opportunity and the trick will be getting people to recognize that fact.

Bhagavad Gita

Thus handed down in succession the royal sages knew this (Karma-yoga). After a long time the science of Karma-yoga was lost from this earth.

Thaddeus Kennedy

She wasn't burned. But when we handed her over to EMS, she was pretty lifeless.

Carl Erskine

That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work with.

Alan Barton

We've played each other seven times in the last two years so we know each other. We know they're going to come out and punch us in the face. We overcame the storm and I thought we handed the pressure better and started getting some open looks.

Lance Cutler

When we walk into most restaurants and are handed the wine list, we are appalled.

Anson Mount

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

Jon Lieber

We've had our (butts) handed to us. But are we going to go home with out tail between our legs? No. We just need to keep battling.

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Patrick Anderson

The only sliver of a silver lining is that the tourism industry has held its own.

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Don Cooper

You knew who was the boss. That's a refreshing thing now. Here in Chicago, the inmates don't run the asylum. They're held accountable. They know what the rules are.

Walt Smith

We got to play a lot of people, including our 20 freshmen, and they held their own. They usually run the other team's plays in practice, so they are still picking up what we run.

Doug Pritchard

Those who had held them and were guarding them were not present in the location where they were found.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Cynthia Ozick

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Paul Hawken

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.

Camille Little

We played well when it mattered and pulled it out, and that's all that mattered.

Cal Nichols

We plan to play a season no matter how that happens.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Alfred North Whitehead

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Seth Godin

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Mary Browne

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.