Croly The Promise Quotes

#1. Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

Frank Gifford

#2. The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Herbert Croly

#3. I want to take the time right now to thank all the people who believed in me from day one. Gracias, gracias a todo gente creo en me. You know, I can prove that dreams do come true. I'm living proof that dreams come true in life.

Oscar Gutierrez

#4. People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Druyan

#5. I lean in quickly and kiss him. "We may," I say.

Elise Allen

#6. When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Herbert Croly

#7. How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?

Radhanath Swami

#8. Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

Maria Montessori

#9. Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

Paulo Freire

#10. I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

John Glover

#11. Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

Pope Benedict XVI

#12. It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Herbert Croly

#14. To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

Herbert Croly

#15. Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian,
And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion
Whenever she happens to walk by, why does the apple of my eye
Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?

Fatlip

#16. To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

Nicole Holofcener

#17. Yeah, Mel! If she shoves you again, smack her in the face!" bellowed Mika.
Kira glared at Mika.
"I mean, beat her in the race!

Katie Mattie

#18. I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

Bernie Mac

#19. The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Herbert Croly

#20. The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.

Erik Qualman