Given Quotes

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.