Air We Breathe Quotes

39 Air We Breathe quotes by 34 unique authors

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of… — William J. Clinton
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human. — Jack Nicholson
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. — Goran Persson
It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the… — Julia Roberts
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of… — Unknown Author
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air… — Edward Abbey
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.… — Arianna Huffington
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone,… — Norbert Wiener
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized… — Cordell Hull
The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum… — William Tyndale
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. — Godfrey Reggio
What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not… — Godfrey Reggio
Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged,… — Sissela Bok
Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the… — Unknown Author
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the… — G. Edward Griffin
There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it.… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The air we breathe is necessary to keep us alive, but we must continually breathe it out so we can breathe fresh air back into… — John Templeton
The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is… — Richard M. Nixon
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices. — Warren Buffett
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing… — Edgar Degas
We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of… — Thomas Keating
When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We… — Ernest Rutherford
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement… — Alan Lightman

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