Pacific Quotes
202 quotes by 180 authors
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Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific…
— Bruce Babbitt
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling…
— David R. Brower
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Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors…
— Louise Brown
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in…
— James Lee Burke
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific,…
— George H. W. Bush
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Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be…
— James G. Blaine
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from…
— Edith Hamilton
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards…
— John Keats
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line…
— Douglas MacArthur
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If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the…
— Nelson A. Miles
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It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come,…
— Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster
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Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard…
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
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By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United…
— Barack Obama
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As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a…
— Kimberly Yee
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the…
— Melinda Gates
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An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida…
— Robert D Bullard
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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
— James Madison
Who Wrote These Pacific Quotes
180 authors contributed a total of 202 Pacific Quotes, led by these top contributors: