Quotes 221 till 240 of 791.
-
I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
Source: Speech in House of Lords, 24 May 1965 -
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
-
I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
-
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
-
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
-
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
-
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
-
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
-
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
-
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
-
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
-
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
-
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
-
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
-
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
-
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
-
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
-
I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
Source: Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
All mother-in-law famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 12)
