Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
~By Chet Atkins ~
Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.
~By Virgil Goode ~
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
~By John Ruskin ~
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
~By Donald Cargill ~
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
~By Glenn Hoddle ~
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
~By Bob Brown ~
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
~By Sally Kempton ~
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
~By Jared Diamond ~
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
~By Beau Bridges ~
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
~By John Walker Lindh ~
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
~By Hudson Stuck ~
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
~By William Wiley ~
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
~By Dennis Banks ~
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
~By Robert Hewison ~
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
~By Edwin Booth ~
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
~By Matt Groening ~
I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.
~By Robert Atkins ~
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
~By Paul Nurse ~
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
~By Richard Neal ~
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.
~By Rick Renzi ~
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
~By Studs Terkel ~
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
~By William Shenstone ~
Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.
~By Nathan Deal ~
I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
~By Alexander Pope ~
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
~By John Drinkwater ~
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
~By Terri Windling ~
We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
~By Brad Paisley ~
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
~By Laurence Housman ~
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
~By Matt Groening ~
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
~By Margot Asquith ~
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
~By Northrop Frye ~
The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
~By Bob Odenkirk ~
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
~By Bob Greene ~
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
~By Martin Yan ~
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
~By Mark Twain ~
That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
God is only a great imaginative experience.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
~By Jerry Weller ~
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.
~By Rick Renzi ~
We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
~By Franz Boas ~
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
~By Pierce Brosnan ~
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.
~By Rick Renzi ~
I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.
~By Rick Renzi ~
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
~By Georg Solti ~
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
~By Gerry Adams ~
If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.
~By Rick Renzi ~
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
~By Imran Khan ~
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
~By George Stigler ~
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
~By Emma Goldman ~
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
~By Jim Harrison ~
What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.
~By Rick Renzi ~
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
~By Payne Stewart ~
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
~By Thurston Moore ~
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
~By Cecil Rhodes ~
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.
~By Diane Cilento ~
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
~By John H. Speke ~
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
~By Richard Neal ~
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
~By Rick Renzi ~
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
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