Ceded Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says… — Bruce Springsteen
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the… — John Thorn
By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead… — Manohla Dargis
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by… — Lord Acton
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations:… — Ann Druyan
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender...… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all… — Neil Abercrombie
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed… — William H. Seward
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at… — Diane Setterfield
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the… — Pedro Pierluisi
Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the… — Neil Abercrombie
Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information. — Thomas Harrison

Who Wrote These Ceded Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 13 Ceded Quotes as follows: