Men Women Quotes - Page 11

• The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Women, Machines, Suppression

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

  Afia Nathaniel

  Strong Women, Children, Tough

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

  Carson McCullers

  Country, Children, Men

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.

  Bob Cox

  Teenager, Hockey, Men

  4 Copy quote

• When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.

  John McCain

  Children, War, Airplane

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Children, Men, Organization

  Meridel Le Sueur (1990). “Harvest song: collected essays and stories”, West End Pr

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Work

  4 Copy quote

• I wouldn't vote for Steve Scalise because he goes he was that I will and Congressman of the United States that would vote for Israel which ethnically cleansed 600,000 Palestinians Israel recently killed and maimed 20,000 Palestinian men, women and children.

  David Duke

  Children, Men, Israel

  14 Copy quote

• Yes, life is a woman!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Life Is, Yeah

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.272, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

  Ida Tarbell

  Women, Equality, Justice

  41 Copy quote

• Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.

  P. L. Travers

  Children, Book, Men

  20 Copy quote

• He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

  Sydney Smith

  Funny, Children, Humor

  1834 Letter to Lady Grey,19 Nov.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared my original Success Pyramid years ago, I put industriousness and enthusiasm as the two cornerstones with LOYALTY right in the middle of the pyramid - Loyalty to yourself and to all those dependent upon you.

  John Wooden

  Loyalty, Athlete, Men

  4 Copy quote

• I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

  Jerry Brown

  Children, Men, California

  Source: www.npr.org

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's obviously more of us than there is men, so that's why its important that you feel like its someone you want to be with long term. You should make it impossible for a man/woman to want someone else providing all the things within reason.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Men, Long, Important

  4 Copy quote

• The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Christian, Mother, Children

  8 Copy quote

• We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Writing, Men

  "Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

  Sima Samar

  Women, Rights, Government

  9 Copy quote

• The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Real, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Women, Often Is, Ambiguity

  Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

  Yip Harburg

  Women, Eagles, Amelia

  7 Copy quote

• The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Women

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Beautiful, Years, Names

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.

  Peter Akinola

  Religious, Sleep, Men

  Associated Press Interview, December 2003.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source