quotes about Civics

last updated: November 28, 2023

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
-- Arthur Ashe

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Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
-- Christine Pelosi

Source : Christine Pelosi (2012). “Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits”, p.125, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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One must always be civic-minded.
-- Hiroo Onoda

Source : "Words to Live by Hiroo Onoda" by Judit Kawaguchi, archive.is. January 16, 2007.

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When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.
-- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

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“I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.”

Source : "T-Pain almost ended up working at McDonald's". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. June 8, 2007.
“Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.”
“Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.”
“From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.”

Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company
“True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.”

Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.183
“Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!”
“The real problem is that through our scientific genius weâ€™ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius weâ€™ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.”
“I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.”
“It's nice to think people might be talking about it after they've seen it. With some comedies it's a bit 'wham bam thank you ma'am', and then you just go for a pizza.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.”