Volunteer Quotes - Page 7

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground. And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler. And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

Volunteers are caring friends