Ties Quotes - Page 10

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.