Population Quotes
- Page 9We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
James Wolfensohn
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
Antony Beevor
My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.
Robert Atkins
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
Arthur Keith
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
Henry Charles Carey
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
Annie Lennox
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
Edward Zwick
Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.
Ruben Hinojosa
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
Sherman Alexie
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
Billy Tauzin
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
Carol Moseley Braun
I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
Lewis Thomas
Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.
Peter Fraser
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.
Ernst Mayr