Quotes of: Volunteers Keyword

On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager t...

Thomas Perez

Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed that the majority of the Massachusetts volunteers appeared to be thrill-seeking teenagers, British Army deserters and...

Guns, Politics and Independence: Correspondence between General Washington and President Hancock - June 16, 1775-July 10, 1776

It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!

Joyce Meyer

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Rob McKenna

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Mohammad Hatta

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

Tim Murphy

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Jonathan Tisch

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Aldrich Ames

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

Eden Sher

Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.

Volunteer 4 Africa

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

Otto Dix

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

Jennifer Garner

I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

Douglas McGrath

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.

Bill Alexander

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

Jon Porter

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

Benjamin Walker

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

John Foster

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

George H. W. Bush

Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

Matthew Lesko