Department Quotes

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. (Shirley Temple)
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. View quote
Paul Robeson
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. View quote
Arthur Miller
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. View quote
Tennessee Williams
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. View quote
Arthur Machen
Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department. View quote
David Packard
I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. View quote
Dolly Parton
I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. View quote
Joseph McCarthy
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. View quote
Steven Wright
Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department. View quote
Al Sharpton
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. (Andy Warhol)
I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. View quote
Robert Mueller
It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. View quote
Gavin Bryars
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. View quote
Harry Shearer
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases. View quote
Mike Rogers
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security. View quote
Warren Rudman
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. View quote
Will McDonough
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. View quote
James Madison
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department. View quote
Alain de Botton
But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion. (William James)
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani