(436 quotes found)
“In a city that grew up fast and changes quickly ... some of the old institutions and businesses and buildings that represent the past are a good thing to hold on to. It's kind of like looking at old family pictures.”
Tim Samuelson
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy”
Walter Millis
“If the state of oratory that inundates our educational institutions during the month of June could be transformed into rain for southern California, we should all be happily awash or waterlogged.”
Samuel Gould
“[Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century, Mockingbird won three Oscars, including one for star Gregory Peck , who died in 2003. And it was Peters who read the eulogy at Peck's funeral.] In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love, ... Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure.”
Brock Peters
“Baseball said it's instituting tougher steriod testing. For the 1st offense, players get a 10-game suspension. For repeat offenses, players will get a batting championship.”
Conan O'Brien
“[Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century, Mockingbird won three Oscars , including one for star Gregory Peck, who died in 2003. And it was Peters who read the eulogy at Peck's funeral.] In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love, ... Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure.”
“Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.”
Mae West
“Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them”
George Bernard Shaw
“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
