Bicentennial Quotes

#1. The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

Caitlyn Jenner

#2. To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Edwidge Danticat

#3. [S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit's bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before--before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which happened here first and faster than anywhere else on this planet.

Jerry Herron

#4. At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#5. The American people are proud to welcome your majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well. After all you've dined with 10 U.S. presidents. You've helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 -in 1976

George W. Bush

#6. In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

James M. Buchanan

#7. You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?"
About as much as the Bicentennial.

Ice Cube

#8. Prediction requires knowing about technologies that will be discovered in the future, but that very knowledge would almost automatically allow us to start developing those technologies right away. Ergo we do not know what we will know.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#9. Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.

Cory Booker

#10. I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

Lisa Snowdon

#11. I think the Olsen twins' line, The Row, has some cool stuff. And I'm kind of obsessed with a clothing line called Stop Staring. It has a lot of vintage-type dresses that are retro '40s and '50s inspired.

Heather Graham

#12. Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

Orlando Bloom

#13. My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Trent Reznor

#14. The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

Marc Jacobs

#15. men's eyes were made to look and let them gaze

William Shakespeare

#16. I didn't eat pork either. Except bacon, of course. Everyone eats bacon.

Tarryn Fisher

#17. Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#18. I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up to the sky, because everything we're made of, even the hemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.

Robyn Schneider

#19. Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

#20. there's a universe swirling inside you. you have to learn to be your own earth, wind, fire and water. you are a natural phenomenon - not a natural disaster.

K.Y. Robinson

#21. It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

Randy Harrison