Support Quotes
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We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Edward Kennedy
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Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.
Chelsea Manning
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When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.
John Dickerson
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Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.
Benjamin Franklin
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Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
Mark Kassen
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I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.
Wale
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I think the Invictus Games is something the world needs to know more about. What it does for the competitors and what it does for the families and what it does for the wounded warriors and their support system is nothing short of phenomenal. More people need to know about it.
John Cena
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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antoni Gaudi
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I 100% want to support the movement, #MeToo and Time's Up. We are a sisterhood.
Jodie Whittaker
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So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.
Ang Lee
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
J. B. Pritzker
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
Eden Robinson
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I won't let any of my friends become a fan. To me, you're either a friend or you're a fan. That doesn't mean my friends can't support me, because they all do, but they can't treat me differently than they would treat someone else. None of my friends are in awe of me.
Jeremy Lin
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I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.
Sam Brownback
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One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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Russian efforts and the direct efforts of ...(Russian special envoy) Viktor Chernomyrdin have not found the understanding and proper support of NATO leadership
Igor Ivanov
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I've always received a lot of support from my family, particularly for my pursuits as an actor. I'm very lucky.
Elliot Knight
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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
Quentin Bryce
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I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.
Brian Selznick
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
Nargis Fakhri
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The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.
Naomi Weisstein
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We have to support the well-being of society.
Dave McClure
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We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
Hillary Clinton
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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
Crystal Bowersox