- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
- Prosperity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
- Deposit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.
- Astonish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I'm always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020