Years Quotes - Page 33

• If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

  Pete Seeger

  World, Littles, Little Things

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• Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now

  John Beddington

  Weather, Next, Patterns

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• A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

  Jonathon Porritt

  Growth, Usual, Population

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• Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years time? That's when these things are going to start hitting in a really big way. We need to act now. We need investment in science and technology, and all the other ways of treating very seriously these major problems. 2030 is not very far away

  John Beddington

  Technology, People, Water

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• The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Mother, Children, Two

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• I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits, the revenue from immigrants' payments could reduce taxes. Paying for the right to immigrate would also negate the argument that immigrants get a free ride when they gain health care and other benefits. Moreover, making immigrants pay would attract the type of immigrants who came much earlier in American history: young men and women who are reasonably skilled and want to make a long-term commitment to the United States.

  Gary Becker

  Commitment, Long, Immigration

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• He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it

  Steve Perry

  Regret, Sleep, Learning

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• Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

  Mao Zedong

  Dream, Regret, Hero

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• I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these blistering summers. They have broken heat records in a number of cities already this year and broken all-time records and it is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels.

  Pat Robertson

  Summer, Ice, Cities

  "Pat Robertson: I’m ‘A Convert’ On Global Warming, ‘It Is Getting Hotter’". thinkprogress.org. August 03, 2006.

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• At a press conference yesterday NASA announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record. It is so hot, and global warming is so bad, if the presidential election were held today, Al Gore would still lose.

  Jay Leno

  Yesterday, Presidential, Hot

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• Heating bills this winter are the highest they've been in five years, but President Bush has a plan to combat rising bills. It's called global warming.

  Jay Leno

  Winter, President, Rising

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• I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

  Bernard Berenson

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Humble, People

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• I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Humble, Son

  "Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2013.

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• On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of an old Timberland boot if you can rig it up and get some weed some out of it. I'll smoke that. Man, I've been saying that for years, so I might just try to make me a Timberland boot contraption that you can smoke weed out of. I think I'm gonna try it."

  Devin the Dude

  Weed, Men, Thinking

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• We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Today, Use, Action

  Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)

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• The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot do anything that is not checked and rechecked by scientists of this network before it is accepted.

  Sune Bergstrom

  Believe, Science, Long

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• The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Voting

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

  Commencement Address at Howard University, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 04, 1965.

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• I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Voting Age, Gentleman

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. June 6, 2008.

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• And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws

  Alan Keyes

  Men, Skin Color, Law

  "Preparing Our Country for the 21st Century: The Official Transcript of the United We Stand America Conference". Book by United We Stand America Inc., November, 1995.

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• There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Party, Long, Voting

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• Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

  Marty Meehan

  Government, Guarantees That, Rights

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• Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Military, Voting Age, Want

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

  Jim Cooper

  Voting, Body, Shame

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