Lives Quotes

At 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

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.

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.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

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.

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.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

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.

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.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.