Top 44 Quotes About Trustees
#1. Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!
Susan J. Ellis
#2. I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
Woodrow Wilson
#3. We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
William Morris
#4. It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.
Norman Dodd
#5. College football would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss of humanity.
H.L. Mencken
#6. I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.
Ralph Ellison
#7. C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.
Thomas Friedman
#8. My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
Chuck Grassley
#9. For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
Barney Frank
#10. 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ... advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize ... and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.
Ralph W. Moss
#12. College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.
H.L. Mencken
#13. The strong point of American research universities is the manner in which trustees, presidents and other senior executives retain a considerable amount of decision-making authority while at the same time maintaining a culture of open exchange and participatory debate.
Henry Rosovsky
#14. If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly.
William Shawcross
#15. Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union
to improve it is the task of us all.
John F. Kennedy
#16. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [ ... ] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
George Mason
#17. The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
Evan Esar
#18. Molecule Trustees: The sun and all of us are molecule trustees, administering the molecules entrusted to us until they are passed on. Like any trustee, we do not own the property, nor do we decide who will receive what we stewarded. It might be somebody grumpy like Xanthippe.
Amy Leach
#19. He has made us the master organizers of the world ... to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth ... This is the divine mission of America ... We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]
Albert J. Beveridge
#20. Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#21. We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources ... there would be little wealth for anyone.
John Ruskin
#22. Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.
Joseph Hall
#23. We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.
Learned Hand
#24. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
#25. You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.
Kerry Washington
#26. Almost all philanthropy is by definition undemocratic, its priorities set by wealthy donors and boards of trustees, who by extension can shape the direction of public policy in faraway communities.
Dale Russakoff
#27. Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
Julius Sterling Morton
#28. My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
Randy Quaid
#29. Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.
James Roosevelt
#30. Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.
Joan Jett
#33. You are now configuring a color, and that's all you can do; change the color or cancel, or you'll be stuck here forever.
Matt Neuburg
#34. Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
Sidney Sheldon
#35. You haven't failed until you stop trying.
Jon Gordon
#36. Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.
Wayde Goodall
#37. All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest.
Tony Horton
#39. I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called 'Ooh La La,' that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
Michel Martelly
#40. War did not come like a hurricane, Rorimer realized, destroying everything in its path. It came like a tornado, touching down in patches, taking with it one life while leaving the next person unharmed.
Robert M. Edsel
#41. A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.
Allan Pease
#42. If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#43. Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
John Green
#44. In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.
Mason Cooley
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