Certificate Quotes - page 2

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. (Edwidge Danticat)
...among no people of the pre-Christian era do we find so great a number of intellectually prominent men who, by their words and by their whole personality, have devoted themselves to the religious guidance of their nation, as among the people of the early Bible... our Germanists would do well to notice... the science of religions is able to make the comparison; and to the people of Israel it will award this certificate: You have excelled them all by the sublimity of your religion... View quote
Michael von Faulhaber
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. I never had any formal education-not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action. View quote
Idi Amin
I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma. View quote
Bill Maher
If he had told the voters in 1980 that truth, would American voters have signed the loan certificate for him on Election Day? Of course not! That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirrors and illusions. And that's the kind of recovery we have now as well. View quote
Mario Cuomo
Donald Trump brought up the issue of the birth certificate and it's getting huge buzz around the country. Even Chris Matthews has called for, you know, the birth certificate to be released. Why can't they just release the birth certificate, you know, and just move on? View quote
Sean Hannity
The defendant styles herself "a creator of fashions." Her favor helps a sale. Manufacturers of dresses, millinery and like articles are glad to pay for a certificate of her approval. The things which she designs, fabrics, parasols and what not, have a new value in the public mind when issued in her name. She employed the plaintiff to help her to turn this vogue into money. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. View quote
Erik Larson
I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70! View quote
Rose McGowan
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it. (Jenny Offill)
There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate. View quote
Michael Gough
Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts. View quote
Peter York
Did you see my ninja move? That was fast, right?" "You are not a ninja, Shane." "I've watched all the movies. I just haven't gotten the certificate from the correspondence course yet. View quote
Rachel Caine
The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name. View quote
Rickey Henderson
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it. View quote
Raul Labrador
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. View quote
Victoria Wood
His most celebrated poems are, of course, the historical-satirical ballads (A or even X certificate) in which a person or period is "hit off", in the sense both of being preserved and hit for six. View quote
William Plomer
I'm also tired of hearing about innocent victims this is an outmoded idea. There are no innocent victims. If you're born on this world you're guilt, period, fck you, end of report, next case. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt. View quote
George Carlin
A moral coward, you see, is simply someone who has read the fine print on the back of his Birth Certificate and seen the little clause which says "You can't win." View quote
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Every photograph is a certificate of presence. (Roland Barthes)
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work. View quote
Peter Higgs
Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.' View quote
James McAvoy
I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate had an expiration date on it. View quote
Steven Wright
Europe without Greece is like a child without a birth certificate. View quote
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing