A Quote by Dave Barry

This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

Dave Barry

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Cause Embraced Friendly Getting Injury Leading Nation Passionately Strangers

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Dave Barry
American - Journalist
Born: July 3, 1947

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Ed Markey

We certainly do have to be realistic about where we stand. It is the case that cancer is the second-leading cause of deaths in the U.S., in fact, in nearly half the states it's the leading cause of death. And we have a ways to go.

Tyler Jacks

Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause of death for all people aged fifteen to twenty-four. That makes it the leading health issue, particularly when guns are used in combination with drugs and alcohol. And the statistics show that is most often the case.

Joycelyn Elders

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

Yoko Ono

It was the toughest phase of my life. I suffered almost a career-ending injury. Getting through the first phase of my injury was tough.

P. R. Sreejesh

Be friendly first. Service starts with a friendly person with a friendly smile, who offers friendly words first. How friendly are you?

Jeffrey Gitomer

If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.

Kevin Harvick

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

Richard M. Nixon

To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.

Rose Schneiderman

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

Bill Bennett

As a nation, we have never embraced aging.

Denise Lewis

What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?

Wess Stafford

Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to bring all people together and to lift up the cause of this nation so that we once again become a nation that comes from the heart and reconnect with our optimism to really create a nation that we can all be proud of.

Dennis Kucinich

There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.