Lifeline Quotations

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

Cell phones are the lifeline for teenagers. They just can't imagine life without them, ... It's not just a communication device for teens; it's an entertainment device.

The acquisition of Lifeline is an important step on our roadmap for growth in healthcare. By targeting seniors and other people who want to continue living independently and exerting more control over their health and lifestyle, we aim to become a global player in the evolving home healthcare market.

We hope to be able to continue to help people pay for the lifeline program.

We must provide adequate funding for an essential program that serves as a lifeline to some of our most vulnerable citizens.

The preservation of the rebate program should always be a priority until there is a stable form of property-tax relief and reform. It is the only lifeline and the only bridge until real reform is enacted. To take that away, which is meaningful property-tax relief, would be wrong in my mind.

The over-regulation of banking sector can be avoided because they affect the entry into the market of poor migrant workers. The remittances give a lifeline to people in poor countries.

We sent Lifeline of Ohio a photograph of Bill a few years ago. But we had never been able to see the quilt, as it was always displayed in Columbus or another location. We were very grateful to be able to finally see the quilt with Bill's photo on it.

The prospect of an interest-rate-hike lifeline for the currency has become even more remote. The coming week will be the most important for the currency of any in the next three months.

This road is a lifeline for us. Please open it,

Financial incentives brought people back to places, brought businesses back to places and were a lifeline for small businesses that would have gone under,

We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company.

We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serves are poor people who don't get cable or can't afford it.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.

That threw me a lifeline and gave me a lot of hope. I kept fighting and hanging in there.

This is a critical, lifeline issue for the development of our economy.

There's 20 sports whose sole lifeline depends on football here. They can't exist without successful football. There's such a huge burden on football revenue, schools don't have a choice.

For hundreds of thousands of families, Medicaid is going to be a lifeline in the coming months,

Everyone of us will pay lower insurance rates because when more people buy into the system, the rates go down. This has a benefit that's the secret gift of the lifeline auto policy.

They are kind of an untold story of all the stories everyone has heard about. They are the only lifeline for people suffering the most unspeakable thing you can imagine - the loss of a loved one.

In Cuenca, Ecuador's third largest city, bus transportation is a vital lifeline for many of its citizens. The municipalities in Ecuador are proactive in their deployment of new technologies that enhance core services. The selection of Panther Trak as the GPS device of choice is further evidence of the market acceptance of our technology and we anticipate additional orders for similar uses.

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun.

I'm the last guy who hasn't been used, ... Our lifeline is not very long. You might see me earlier in the third game.

In response to Katrina, SAMHSA has activated its disaster response plan for the Lifeline to ensure all calls are answered. In addition, information on the Lifeline is being distributed in the impacted areas through established national, state and local networks to help make the number widely available and accessible to those in need.

This is a lifeline for the little guy who's been struggling to compete against the big guns, and a helping hand for the Sportsman racer who's hoping to move up to Modified. This spec motor is certainly not the cure-all for the trend of escalating costs in the sport. But we think it will help. And the time to sit back and do nothing has certainly passed.

The great necessity for destroying Japan's vital lifeline of shipping gave us no choice but to sink all Japanese ships encountered.

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.