Top 530 Contributions Quotes & Sayings

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .

Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

The contributions of refugees to the diverse mosaic of our nation are undeniable.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

We have to go to those countries and we have to ask them to make contributions that are greater than the contributions they're making right now. You know, we're going to protect them, we're going to remain loyal to them, but at the same time it's a two-way street. They have to help us also.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.

We greatly value the contributions of all of our employees.

I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.

I receive contributions from a variety of people who are interested in what the Armed Services Committee does.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's contributions have been less important than men's contributions because women are usually less public people.

I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

Imagine the day when girls everywhere won't have to fight for the right to be recognized for their great work or their contributions to society.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally get larger contributions than their challengers. The opponents at least get some money, but they do not have access to the perquisites of the incumbent.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

People of Mumbai respect me a lot and they are well aware of my contributions towards the film industry.

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Darren Levine has my unqualified support and gratitude for his contributions to Krav Maga.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

When you have over 500 million dollars in questionable contributions, shouldn't that start to alert people?

The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision, even though it's produced by a large number of people making contributions - to turn all those contributions from individual voices into one coherent one.

If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.

For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.

Salaries should be set based on production and contributions, not positions.

When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

The contributions of influential African Americans have frequently been ignored, underrepresented, and even silenced.