Kamisese Mara Quotes

But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.

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• My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Important
  • Children
  • Future

• When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Will

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Expression

• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Believe
  • End

• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Live
  • Lost

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Progress

• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Important
  • Know
  • Me

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fashion

• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • English
  • More
  • Manners

• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
  • Speech
  • Precious

• In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Star

• I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

  

  David Chalmers
  • People

• There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • People
  • Dream
  • Neighborhood

• But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • People
  • Friends
  • Knowledge