State Quotes

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.

We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.