World Quotes

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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or… — Michael Chertoff
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing… — Alan Greenspan
This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much… — George F. Kennan
The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless… — Richard Lamm
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of… — Ronald Reagan
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin… — W S Merwin
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves… — U Thant
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people,… — Nhat Hanh
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the… — Frederick William Robertson
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits. — Robert Southey
Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place. — Gary Snyder
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. — George Washington
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I… — Washington Irving
To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had… — Janet Morris
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is… — George Wald
Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman… — David O. McKay
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources… — Norman Cousins
One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace. — Hermann Hesse
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. — William Wordsworth
What would the world be without him, and those like him? — Janet Morris
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics… — Aberjhani
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something… — Aberjhani

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