For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

— Dick Cheney

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching…

— Derek Bok

I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

— Blanka Vlasic

And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect…

— Christopher Columbus

I like people who are devoted to me: men who know I'm the most fabulous thing in the world, and they just look at…

— Angela Bowie

I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party,…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of…

— Anonymous

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service…

— Queen Elizabeth II

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

— Abraham Lincoln

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500…

— Samantha Power

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the…

— Peter Medawar

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our…

— David Livingstone

You'll know you're amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.

— Robin Sharma

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

— Jonathan Haidt