Eric Holder Quotes

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.

Eric Holder

• Travel
• Progress
• Ideals
• Attorney
• African-American
• President of the United States

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• I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Travel
  • Promote
  • Commercials

• We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Australia

• But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Trust
  • Progress
  • Goals

• If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Way
  • City
  • Travel

• The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Peace
  • Progress
  • Islam

• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Live
  • Travel
  • Find

• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • City
  • Travel

• It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life
  • May
  • Job

• ...because city honours are not village honours. Like certain wines, they do not travel; carry them back to the village and you find they are dust in your hands.

  

  Laurie Lee
  • City
  • Travel

• The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Positive

• My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

  

  David Gross
  • History
  • True
  • Science

• Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Travel

• Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Progress

• Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • High
  • Travel

• The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

  

  Anna Howard Shaw
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

  

  David Selby
  • Important
  • Long
  • Family

• When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • True

• Something like that starts with me. . . . It was all of us together.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Thinking
  • Together

• Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • Social Media
  • Accident
  • Strategic thought

• Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Star
  • Disney

• Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heaven
  • Wind
  • Glories

• I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Travel
  • Progress
  • Ideals