Jimmy Carter Quotes

In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

Jimmy Carter

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• Despair

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
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• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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  • Different
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• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Feeling
  • Person

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Punishment
  • Legal

• Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Need

• I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Myself
  • More
  • Iceland

• I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Consciousness

• For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Truth
  • True

• If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Children
  • Home
  • Remember

• I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.

  

  DeMar DeRozan
  • World
  • Respect

• In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

  

  Chris Coons
  • Real
  • Free
  • Political

• Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Rest
  • Sunday
  • Loafing

• In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Children
  • Poverty
  • Despair