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

• 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

• ...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

• 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

• Everything is so unstable in these times of progress at any cost, and social customs and methods of life alter so rapidly, that a few years now suffice to change completely the face of usages which, at their inception, bade fair to outlive the age - so enthusiastically were they welcomed by the public.

  

  Auguste Escoffier
  • Life
  • Age
  • Progress

• I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • World
  • Travel

• My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Present

• When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I found I'd left one at home.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Home
  • Reading
  • Travel

• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • You
  • Experiences

• The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.

  

  Anthony McCarten
  • People
  • Great

• Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Government
  • Moving
  • Pay

• I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• I just called to say, 'I love you.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Love
  • Say
  • Just

• 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