Top 16 Quotes About The National Mall
#1. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)
Seymour Simon
#2. Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.
Thomas Frank
#3. You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'
Luis Palau
#4. There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.
Des Browne
#5. We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?
Henry David Thoreau
#6. I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever.
Sarah Vowell
#7. I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'
Morena Baccarin
#9. Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
Marcus Aurelius
#10. I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
Billy Joel
#12. Allo!" he shouted as he drifted away."there is no to fear! The Boov have stopped eating you people!
Adam Rex
#13. I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
Benmont Tench
#14. I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.
Pete Hamill
#15. You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
Peter Shilton
#16. The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.
Michael Pollan
