Quotes About 50th Anniversary

#1. One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

Douglas Brinkley

#2. From Joan Baez at Town Hall in New York City, on her 50th Anniversary Tour as a performer. "People always ask me about my voice. I tell them, 'The gift is from God. My job is just maintenance and delivery.

Terry Brennan

#3. I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#4. It's an incredible honor to be recognized by St. Jude, especially on a special year like its 50th anniversary. I feel passionate about my music, but even more passionate about children and giving them the opportunity to live a healthy and happy life.

Juan Luis Guerra

#5. My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

#6. This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Stanley Fish

#7. People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.

Grover Norquist

#8. Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

Common

#9. We're all works of art in progress.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#10. You have to be strong enough to stay off the bottle. For you. Not me.

Abigail Roux

#11. Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

Rick Perry

#12. Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

Carrie Fisher

#13. There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

Tom Petty

#14. The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

George Washington

#15. If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

David Wain

#17. Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Blaise Pascal

#18. And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

Graeme Murphy

#19. Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Paul Tillich

#20. Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

Frank Luntz

#21. Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes - not unlike you - not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don't tend to know it.

Shannon Celebi