Quotes About Being A Good Citizen

#1. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Tony Kushner

#2. Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with just basic training. Dogs are being killed because of lack of training, and that's what the Canine Good Citizen program is all about. (Mary Burch, AKC)

Martin Kihn

#3. I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.

George Washington

#4. The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people.

Khem Veasna

#5. Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#6. Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

Siddharth Katragadda

#7. I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

Ursula Burns

#8. It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.

Sergio Martinez

#9. I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone home when I first got there. Whenever I spoke to my mum, at the end of the call I would say, 'Love you, Mum', and she would say, 'Love you the most.'

Ella Eyre

#10. Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

Leonard Susskind

#12. People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.

Haruki Murakami

#13. I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

Henry Rollins

#14. No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn't have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, 'Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight?

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

Steve Scully

#16. We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

Cecily McMillan

#17. Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

Daniel H. Hill

#18. I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a chance to have a better life. I served six years in the U.S. Army Reserve, went to college, have a successful career and have dedicated my life to being a good citizen.

Mike Medavoy

#19. All our anxieties relate to time ... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

Fulton J. Sheen

#20. Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings ...

H.L. Mencken

#21. Psychologically, I'm very confused ... But personally, I don't feel bad at all.

Margaret Sullavan

#22. One does not need to lock up that which is not dangerous.

Alexandra Adornetto

#23. Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Pat Gillick

#24. Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

Lester Levenson

#25. All my friends are in my books.

B. Cameron Lee

#26. The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

Mitchell Baker