Former Quotes - page 27

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life. (John Prendergast)
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. View quote
John T. Flynn
My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything. View quote
Kenny Loggins
Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick. View quote
Kim Harrison
Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted. View quote
Kitty Kelley
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. View quote
Krista Allen
My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid. View quote
Ksenia Solo
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. View quote
Leslie Morgan Steiner
As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading. View quote
Lincoln Chafee
To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. View quote
Malcolm Turnbull
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that. (Mara Wilson)
The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest. View quote
Cynthia Dill
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass. View quote
Dennis Washington
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God. View quote
George H. White
An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. View quote
John J. Sirica
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness. View quote
Mark Shand
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. View quote
Max Baucus
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs. View quote
Mel Carnahan
Well, I'm a former FBI agent. View quote
Mike Rogers
It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former. View quote
Montel Williams
As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. (Nita Ambani)
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s). View quote
Peter York
My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal. View quote
Robyn Carr
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down. View quote
Stephanie Klein