Station Quotes - page 2

The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station. (Alan Shepard)
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest,- which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice. View quote
John Ruskin
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant? View quote
Epictetus
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. View quote
Robert Fripp
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. View quote
Abigail Adams
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life. View quote
Joseph Addison
Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down. View quote
Elvis Costello
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart. View quote
Orson Scott Card
And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range. View quote
Ani DiFranco
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please! (Ernest Bevin)
The blunder is to estimate,- "Eternity is Then,” We say, as of a station. Meanwhile he is so near, He joins me in my ramble, Divides abode with me, No friend have I that so persists As this Eternity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future... View quote
Mitt Romney
The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station. View quote
Wangari Maathai
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. View quote
George Mason
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century. View quote
Hillary Clinton
An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station. View quote
Michael Winner
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly. View quote
Dan Rather
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it. (Meg Cabot)
I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad. View quote
Charlaine Harris
So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way. View quote
Alice Schwarzer