Charles W. Pickering Quotes

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Charles W. Pickering

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 29, 1937

Topics

PeopleWorldThinkBetterAmerica

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

Michael Eisner

GodSchoolI AmCollegeHigh School

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Stephen Kinzer

PowerChaosArmyAmericaLate

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

Debra Messing

EducationBestSchoolChildParents

Every story has its demands.

Clint Eastwood

StoryEveryDemands

I have always idolized eccentric people.

Brandon Boyd

PeopleAlwaysEccentricIdolized

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

Brian Tee

WorldActionStuntAvailableWhole

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

William Osler

TruthBrokenAimContentMust

Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.

William Godwin

ChangeGreatMenProgressPlace

I was never going to be a scholar.

Philip Green

NeverScholarGoing

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

Sylvia Kristel

LifePainThinkEndMy LifeKnow

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

Sergio Ramos

MyselfDayWake UpThinkSomeoneUp

Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.

Thomas J. Stanley

PeopleThinkProcessBecomeThan

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