James A. Michener Quotes
When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
James A. Michener
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
Barack Obama
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
Nancy Gibbs
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield
When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
Ozwald Boateng
I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
Randy Pausch
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
Gabe Newell
I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
Vanessa Paradis
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Harrison Ford
People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
Ada Yonath
There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
Viktor Yushchenko
The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
Jack Zipes
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
Jack Herer
I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity Through belief in the threeness Through confession of the Oneness Towards the creator.
Saint Patrick
If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?
Meghan Daum
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
Jose Andres
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain
When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
James A. Michener
