Speech Quotes - Page 28

• So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

  Michael Curtiz

  Mother, Bridesmaids, Dice

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• I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

  Greg Abbott

  Giving, Kind, Wheelchairs

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• For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Use, Habit

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Nba

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

  Julius Genachowski

  Government, Essentials, Roles

  "Julius Genachowski: The Exit Interview". Interview with Jeffrey Rosen, newrepublic.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

  Maajid Nawaz

  Giving, Freedom Of Speech, Doe

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• It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

  Jann Wenner

  Children, Fun, Heart

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• Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

  Billy Graham

  Cancer, Heart, Mean

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

  Anthony Browne

  Drawing, Battle, Littles

  "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

  George Fetherling

  Young, Therapy, Journal

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• The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.

  Michael Donaghy

  Eye, Vision, Sound

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• For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment.  Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

  John Bonifaz

  Rights, Years, Citizens United

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• Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

  George Eliot

  Prayer, Reflection, Roots

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Listening, Half

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sex, Philosophy, Rights

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• [That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Funeral, Atheism, Body

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• If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

  Gloria Steinem

  Numbers, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

  Phil Donahue

  Mother, War, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Ideas, People

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• We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Years, Freedom Of Speech

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

  Willa Cather

  Distance, Thinking, Giving

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.189, Courier Corporation

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• All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Men, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.356, Penguin

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• Honest speech does not seek secret places.

  St. Jerome

  Honesty, Secret Places, Doe

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• Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
  The man free love, the businessman free trade,
  The writer and talker free speech and free press.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Men, Free Love

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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