Top 1200 Rural Communities Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

When Ex-Im gives companies the resources they need to sell their products abroad, their employees, suppliers and communities succeed at home.

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.

I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't see.

The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.

Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge, but they remember well.

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

Trying to learn from communities and engage with policy makers and community organizers all across the country is really important to me.

In countless communities across America today, refugees are giving back to the country that has given them a new start.

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington - and not vice versa.

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

Everybody wants the nation to progress and harmony between all communities. This has happened under the leadership of Modi ji and it will go on.

At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.

Parks contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities and are an important resource for all people, including those with special needs.

In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites.

American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

I ran for president to present the citizens of America. I am here to change the broken system so it serves their families and their communities well.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

We believe that colleges have a fundamental responsibility, if you're located in an urban area, to turn outward and address the needs of the communities you serve.

Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.

Let's make sure that we have health care benefits that have been promised to our veterans delivered to them in the communities that they are living in.

I knew that women politicians face a lot of problems in their lives, so, I dedicated my life for the weaker communities, stayed unmarried.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.

Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.

Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.

People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people together, but then that becomes a problem. There are parallels here, to American cities, which, in the '80s, with massive rural to urban migration, saw incredible amounts of violence.

The American Dream is alive and well for some, but not all Americans. Here in South Carolina, rural hospitals are closing, schools are underfunded, and our coasts are threatened by offshore drilling. We need a Senator who's fighting to improve the lives of South Carolinians rather than focusing on interests in Washington D.C.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

Well-established companies choosing to reinvest and create new jobs is what helps communities like Chatham flourish.

Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

I speak the truth on what happened to me because it's happening to a lot of people that grow up in displaced and disadvantaged communities.

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

Me, I'm just gonna keep spreading the word about 'We Can Be Anything' campaign among Fil-Am communities in the U.S.

The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.