Stand Quotes

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.