Life Quotes

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

William Blake

One thing work gives is the joy of not working, a minute here or there when I stand and only breathe, receiving the good of the air. It comes back. Good work done comes back into the mind, a free breath drawn.

Wendell Berry

I like to build things. I like to do things.

Walter Chrysler

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

Walter Chrysler

It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

Walter Chrysler

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

Walter Cronkite

And that's the way it is.

Walter Cronkite

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

Walter Cronkite

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Walter Cronkite

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Walter Cronkite

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Walter Cronkite

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Walter Cronkite

They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.

Ward Churchill

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Ward Churchill

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

Ward Churchill

I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

Ward Churchill

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

Ward Churchill

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

Warren Christopher

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

Warren Christopher

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Warren Christopher