Promised Quotes

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.

War is the cemetery of futures promised.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

You're never promised your next breath.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.