Lives Quotes
- Page 16At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
Bernie Sanders
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
Martin C. Smith
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
Jeff Foxworthy
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica McKellar
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
Rachel McAdams
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
Diane Keaton
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
Chinua Achebe
As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.
John Walters
The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.
Craig Benson
There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.
Mitch McConnell
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
Brian Bosworth
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
Emma Thompson
Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
Rick Perry
You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
Dick Murphy
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
Julia Ward Howe
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Hesiod
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
John Olver
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
Maria Menounos
An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.
Sonia Gandhi
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
Georg Henrik von Wright
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly