Shape America Quotes

#1. In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers like myself are on course to become the first generation of Americans who leave things in worse shape than they found them.

David Walker

#2. He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.

Jim Butcher

#3. Hold firmly to your word.

Maimonides

#4. The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

Alice Morse Earle

#5. After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.

Anne Burrell

#6. We need to allow God to be God and leave the how, when, and why in His hands. Faith

Cherie Hill

#7. We are all agnostic, we just don't know it.

You

#8. I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Carlos Mencia

#9. There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same.
"Hey, son," his dad said, his voice bending in that weird way that America had started to shape it.

Patrick Ness

#10. Oh shit," he said, and the snap was the sound of his realization. Roger was in love with him.

Brad Vance

#11. When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

Francis Chan

#12. You can't manage time. You can only manage your life. You can't strategically plan time, you can only plan your life.

Farshad Asl

#13. I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

Ananda Krishnan

#14. The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance.
They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?

Jonathan Heatt

#15. I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever!

Jill Flint

#16. The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

Rahm Emanuel

#17. It is what a woman, leaves off, not what she puts on that gives her cachet

Paul Poiret

#18. Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

Wayne LaPierre

#19. We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Richard O'Brien

#20. Class was like watered down porn today. Vee said

Becca Fitzpatrick

#21. I ... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

Xavier Becerra

#22. Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore White

#23. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Richard M. Nixon

#24. That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

Barack Obama

#25. Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

Craig Venter

#26. Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#27. Unlike my father and millions of Chinese, everyone in America - every man, woman and child, whether rich or poor - has the freedom to choose, freedom to shape his or her own destiny. Don't you agree that you can better manage your own life than other people can?

Helen Raleigh