Customs Quotes

252 quotes by 216 authors

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent… — Ban Ki-moon
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years. — Barton Gellman
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not… — Ali Babacan
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of… — Jose Rizal
My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of… — Gerard Depardieu
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or… — David Liss
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of… — Samuel Freeman Miller
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far… — Louis D. Brandeis
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another.… — J. Martin Kohe
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which… — Robert Rainy
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a… — Bob Filner
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. — James Stockdale
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous… — Allyson Schwartz
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal… — Kit Bond
I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles… — Kendrick Meek
A woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne'er quite understand The customs, politics, and tongue — Charles Dudley Warner
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs,… — Joseph Anderson
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau
First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third, his brothers, sisters and aunts; fourth, the love of play… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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