Importation Quotes

#1. Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try ... what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.
'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.

Ally Carter

#2. Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

Larry Craig

#4. We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

Michael K. Simpson

#5. Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#6. The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

Adam Smith

#7. Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.

Jimmy Carter

#9. The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices; that neither exportation nor importation can occur if there are no differences in prices to make trade profitable.

Ludwig Von Mises

#10. The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here.

Tom Frieden

#11. Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven't much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars.

Robertson Davies

#12. the police traced the importation of the counterfeit currency to the Freud family.

Billy Roper

#13. What good literature can do and does do - far greater than any importation of morality - is touch the human soul.

Karen Swallow Prior

#14. Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned ... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. I have not been able to give a concrete answer to the question of how the nations of Asia can create their own unique liberal arts traditions that are not simply the importation of a Western model. The question is a critical one and the answer must come from Asian universities themselves.

Henry Rosovsky

#16. But slave importation became illegal in 1808.

Howard Zinn

#17. One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

Hillary Clinton

#18. The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.

George Jung

#19. The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

Michael K. Simpson

#20. In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God's voice, we must tune out this world's noise.

Billy Graham

#21. The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

Frederick Lenz

#22. With a twinkle in his eyes, my friend says that his favorite prayer is, Lord, give me patience - and give it to me right now!

Billy Graham

#23. But then this one time, at band camp

J.R. Ward

#24. Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."

Satish Kumar

#25. It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Claude Monet

#26. An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

#27. That's my advice to people. You can't get hung up on thinking, "Am I the victim in this situation?" No, I'm in charge of it.

Mindy Kaling

#28. But a society that protects some people through a safety net of schools, government-backed home loans, and ancestral wealth but can only protect you with the club of criminal justice has either failed at enforcing its good intentions or has succeeded at something much darker.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#29. Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

Jim McKelvey

#30. And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them.

Thomas Ligotti

#31. Had Earth been much closer to the Sun, the oceans would have evaporated. Had Earth been much farther away, the oceans would have frozen. In either case, life as we know it would not have evolved.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson