Customs Quotations

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

How rich our German life is compared to France or England: what an abundance of social types and customs with completely different origins... Germany is a world, whereas England and France, with their stereotypically divided three social classes, are but enlarged villages... what a stage for a Balzac.

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages.

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that the best books already existing, besides being old, treat chiefly of aboriginal customs and habits now extinct, and of the introduction of Christianity and subsequent historical events.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

There is no question that over the last 10 years there has been enormous progress and transparency as it relates to customs in Mexico. Whether there is total transparency, I don't know.

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration status.

Somebody at some level had to know he was there. Now obviously I can't tell you whether Saddam knew, but somebody in an official line of responsibility for customs and immigration knew he came into the country,

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.

Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Fox News Channel terminated Ben Johnson, a satellite truck engineer, upon learning that he had admitted to the acts described by the Customs Department. This is an unfortunate incident and his supervisor took the appropriate action for this transgression.

If Andrew Robb is serious about a compulsory citizenship test on Australian history, customs and values, he should have the courage to require all Australians to take the test.

We're pretty much hand-in-glove with Customs and Border Protection every day in this initiative.

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based.

It is challenging to travel around the world, and this is a way you can visit other countries and find out your new neighbor's customs and culture. We need to appreciate what diversity can bring to the community.

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

It is influenced by the customs and practices of the Jewish community in Palestine.

It is impossible for the U.S. customs to register the amount of money if China purchases a movie from the United States.

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

I replied that the customs of my country forbade any one to eat in a house where the host, or his representative, did not sit down to table with him.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.

Our Valentine's Day Romance Survey shows romance is alive and well, but also that many of the traditional proposal practices are evolving. Traditions such as proposing on bended knee and the man choosing the engagement ring alone are much less popular than anticipated. However, the study also showed that traditional proposal customs were much more important to younger adults, suggesting we're entering a new era of romance.

Our committee has a lot of work to do before we truly think about implementing a guest worker program in this country. I say that because our Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drive by day-labor centers knowing that illegal aliens loiter the street corner in search of illegal work but do nothing. I don't know how we can reasonably create a system for 10 million illegal aliens when we cannot currently handle the workload on our desks.

Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied,

I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed all the material and there was nothing derogatory or any hesitation on our part in moving forward with supporting this decision.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Julie Myers is well-respected within the law enforcement community and highly qualified to lead the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We will work with the Senate to ensure her confirmation.

We have our own police force, harbor patrol, customs officers, and Coast Guard. That won't change no matter who is operating the terminal.

We realized it was light when we picked up the container. Customs checked the manifest (a cargo list) and found no detailed information in it.

We're chasing down investigative leads throughout San Diego and Southern California. At the same time, we're working cooperatively with DEA and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Mexican authorities in Mexico in the Tijuana area. They're also running down leads.

We believe there is insufficient Customs cover in the South West - that's across the whole range of duties that Customs and Excise are responsible for. That includes drugs, tobacco and the new security responsibilities. We would like to see more cover in the South West.

We have also explained that the government has submitted the new tax bill and customs and excise draft law to the House of Representatives to support law enforcement,

You know, getting on a bus or getting on a plane and doing whatever, that will just - it just kills me. I know it sounds stupid, but it's exhausting. You know, and then you've got to go back through customs and that's too much.

Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.

The policy caters to traditional Chinese customs but puts huge pressure on our fire departments. In response to the policy, we had urged fire police at all levels not to leave duty during the festival, and increase patrol frequencies.

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.

We'd like to make sure people know that U.S. Customs and Border Protection isn't going to call.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

We work with all kinds of logistics providers: freight forwarders, customs brokers, export and import specialists, warehouses, and carriers.

We think we will be able to satisfy their concerns, but at the end of the day, it becomes a Customs decision.

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

There are scenes in such programs that stray from the customs and cultural practices of our people in the East, ... help instill good values among the younger generation.

What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.

We will still exist, with the same workers, and the same facility security plan, regulated by the same Coast Guard and Customs officials. And we'll be audited just as often maybe more often.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is in the process of issuing two fines to the pilot.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

Customs will seize items if they are fake.

Customs and Border Patrol officers do use biometric technology. There is the U.S. Visit System. It's another layer of security.

Dubai is a popular shopping destination of the rich and wealthy. The public should know if customs duty was paid in respect of her imports.

These agencies are charged with the important and often challenging responsibility of enforcing our immigration and customs laws,

These essential government agencies have abandoned their responsibilities, sending the message to employers that hiring immigrant workers provides them with a free pass on complying with basic laws. The only federal agency that has stepped up its enforcement in the region is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has escalated its raids on immigrant communities in the New Orleans area.

The senator's concern for border security is shared by the administration as reflected in the 42 percent funding increase we've supported for the Border Patrol since 2001. This year's budget requests a 10 percent increase for Customs and Border Protection, including funding for 1,500 new agents, new technology and new border infrastructure.

The things in place won't change if the operation changes. What's in place are all policies of the Coast Guard, Customs and Homeland Security.

I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget - a day full of hopes and dreams for our future.

Schneider has always been active with customs on both sides of the border. C-TPAT helps provide protection against trade delays.

People are still putting claims in, and Customs hasn't committed either way.

A federal ban would allow us to fine companies that violate it and to work with Customs to stop lead-containing imported candles at the docks.

Approval process of the Customs Union Additional Protocol in the Turkish parliament is totally under the discretion of Turkey. Necessary steps will be taken when time comes,

As far as my agency is concerned, port security really rests principally with the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection.

Alien smuggling organizations are driven by greed with little regard to the health, well-being, dignity or motivation of their human cargo. Attacking and dismantling these criminal groups is critical to securing our borders and ensuring compliance with our immigration and customs laws.

You need to figure that out because that's what the Customs Bureau uses to figure out exports and imports to our country.

This government resolution infringes upon our rights. People bought cars, paid high customs duties, are paying taxes, and in an hour they have become outlawed.

They were jammed under the front seat of the van and a Customs agent saw a paw sticking out.

They spoke Chinese... He was very impressed that the parents were keeping Chinese customs and culture alive.

It was a routine U.S. Customs and Border Protection examination of a container destined for Finland.

For every American soldier we put into Afghanistan, we could train and equip 14 Afghan soldiers. Those Afghan soldiers are going to understand the local terrain. They're going to understand the local customs and culture, and they're going to be able to speak the language.

The balance of trade and security became a battle that we really lost to trade years ago. Customs has become an honor system where the industry controls it, and periodically the government comes in and monitors.

It was mad. It was like changing the channel, or going to a foreign country where the customs are highlighted because they're not your customs.

No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

It was hardly in line with international customs how clearly the Americans took sides. Above all, both sides must change their tone.

It's not because we don't have enough capacity or we don't have enough international flights. It's because of the barrier created by taxes, customs duties and complicated clearance procedures.

The Lansdowne was selected to ferry the Japanese ministers and generals from the Customs House Dock in Yokohama to the Missouri.

I need people to sort and pack ? and we need help filling out customs forms. I had one volunteer, June Fox, come in last week and she wrapped 11 packages in under 25 minutes. That's the type of workers we need.

Canada Customs have guidelines that make it optional whether or not someone considered violent, armed and dangerous, or as having terrorist ties, will be recorded as such in the Customs lookout database. More often than not, those guidelines are used in a way that prevents Customs Officers from knowing they're dealing with someone dangerous, which unjustly places them at risk of grievous bodily harm and death.

I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but I certainly don't keep all the customs and rules I once did.

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.