Given Quotes

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.