Strong Quotes

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

~ Eleanor Clift

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

~ Simon Sinek

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

~ Edward Young

The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.

~ Colin Morgan

I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.'

~ Sharon Horgan

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

~ Ali Abdullah Saleh

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

~ Eustace Budgell

I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.

~ Mary J. Blige

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

~ Lauryn Hill

My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.

~ Tim Howard

I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

~ Fantasia Barrino

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

~ Regina King

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

~ Terrell Davis

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

~ Lance Armstrong

I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.

~ Gillian Jacobs

My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

~ Aerin Lauder

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

~ Alexander Hamilton

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

~ Alexander Hamilton

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

~ Ron Paul

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

~ Richard Scaife

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

~ Jennifer Lopez

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

~ John Paul Jones

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

~ David Cameron

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

~ Julia Gillard

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

~ Martin O'malley

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

~ Cornel West

In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.

~ Denise Juneau

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

~ John C. Maxwell

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

~ Anne Lamott

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

~ Jean Paul

It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy - landing it safely and with strong enough legs to move toward a healthy future.

~ Nina Easton

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

~ Frederick William Robertson

In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.

~ Stephen Elop

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

~ George Papandreou

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

~ Jim Demint

When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.

~ Alan Dershowitz

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

~ Angelina Jolie