Pacific Quotes · Page 11

The TV show I do ['Dr Quinn'] is the day job that enables me to work with this theater [Pacific Resident Theatre…

— Orson Bean

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through…

— Melinda Gates

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes…

— Bob Hope

You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific…

— Dylan Thomas

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would…

— James Carroll

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was against it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] once , it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out.

— Hillary Clinton

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may…

— Jose Rizal

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

— Howard Gordon

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific…

— Frank B. Kellogg

In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some…

— 1st Baron Forster Henry Forster

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production…

— John Hoeven

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us…

— Barack Obama

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.…

— Steven Spielberg

We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may…

— William James

The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is…

— Lin Yutang

That isn't to say that Hawaii's better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to…

— Gabrielle Reece

Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is…

— Jack Johnson

The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy…

— Joe Queenan

Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure…

— Dar Williams

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Now you [Hillary Clinton] want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was…

— Donald Trump

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue…

— Paul Theroux