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Adlai Stevenson

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When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
JOE E. LEWIS Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Ste...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of thi...
ADLAI STEVENSON Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of thi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON "Dont forget me" says love. "Forget me if you have to" says true love............
PRABHA Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of thi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' b...
KURT ANGLE When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso...
WILLIAM SANDERSON It's a mixed bag. What was it that Adlai Stevenson said? I think he quoted Abraham Lincoln when he s...
JACK FROST A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great C...
ARCHIBALD COX ...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and ge...
E.J. DIONNE JR. Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the fi...
HARRY S TRUMAN Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S...
GEORGE TAKEI Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehi...
MARILYN MANSON Why do you watch me burn in the cold,dark-red fire? Like hope that never last Why do you cut me on t...
RYAN B LUNDQUIST You think of yourselves as human searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING If you wondered why we were staring at your shoes when you came in, we were hoping they were damp be...
CAROL JORDAN Why did Jesus die for you? How do you sin? You dont? OK yours is lying.
JODEL AREVALO Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have ...
SAM RAYBURN It surprises us when the money is unclaimed. You never can tell just why. Someone might have been he...
COURTNEY HILL people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ There were hardly any women who were college graduates then.
CONNIE ROGERS I lived here before, cold, lonely, clueless of why I still dwell in this place.Needing to forgive my...
TANICA S HALL Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.
LAUREN DESTEFANO An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976....
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense th...
DREW GILPIN FAUST Thirteen of the 14 past graduates came back for graduation this year to accept their scholarship cer...
DEAN CHASE Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
ENID BLYTON When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgo...
ANN BRASHARES We saw the job market for new college graduates drop significantly in 2002, and it has been climbing...
MARILYN MACKES I breathe you, dream, feel, taste your existance.But you leave me cold at night.Drowning in my own w...
TANICA S HALL Blaming has no positive effect at all
AKOSUA DARDAINE EDWARDS Saturday morning I really decided to leave, when it became a Category 4. When the picture came on wi...
ANDRE HAYDEL The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN I wish I could help you" I whisper.
You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, ...
SIMONE ELKELES Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by studen...
ROBERT REICH Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES Once you graduate from high school and go to college, they need to leave here because they get nothi...
DOROTHY LEE Why don't you leave him? You don't understand.
KARLA HOMOLKA If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?
SOURCE UNKNOWN You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving breath...
PAUL ACQUASANTA That way, when you leave here, you have all the confidence you have the skills you need. It's real-l...
BOB KROUPA I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to co...
GEOFFREY CANADA That's why you count your blessings when you get here. You realize how fortunate you are.
ANTHONY GRANT Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the har...
DAPHNE OZ Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay.
SAMANTHA SOTTO When you?re in high school, you think college is a huge step away. Then you come here and you realiz...
CASSIE KERNS Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you san...
GEORGE ORWELL Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR Three out of our last four contests came down to the wire. That is why college basketball is the gre...
ERNIE NESTOR Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
BARRY MCGUIRE Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place
BARRY MCGUIRE Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good...
RACHEL CAINE How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo...
TANICA S HALL Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the par...
DAVID PIETRUSZA You can leave. I'll stay here.
EZEQUIEL ASTACIO When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you...
GABRIEL IGLESIAS I can't teach them that game experience in the time I have them for the two years. What you can teac...
BOB SWAN Sometimes the best experiences are days when you u dont do anything...
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that...
TUPAC SHAKUR Willows never forget how it feelsto be young.Do you remember where you came from?
WILLIAM STAFFORD That creates a problem because the question is why would people leave if you have such leniency, and...
WILL ADAMS Why did you even come here, Cole?”
I touched her chin. This place, this beautiful place, this...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE That?s another thing you don?t realize - that when you do this you get to see why you moved up here ...
BURT LINSCOTT You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN By and large, the average salary increases employers offered to new college graduates were respectab...
MARILYN MACKES Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
BARRY MCGUIRE Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to ...
ANN BRASHARES When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
ALEX HALEN When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
ALEX VAN HALEN Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) You don't leave here without having fun.
BUCK ROGERS Don't forget to leave your handprints on the ones you love and your footprints around the neighborho...
LISA C. MILLER Leave your Legacy on earth when you leave, to continue changing lives when you no longer can..
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...
NEIL GAIMAN O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD Why did you come here?
To find you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
WINNIE THE POOH Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY When you see yourself struggling, keep pushing. It shows you are doing something. Dont give up, you ...
MLUNGISI SIMELANE We're seeing a greater range of opportunities opening up for new college graduates. Employers said t...
MARILYN MACKES Why dont we get drunk and screw?
JIMMY BUFFETT Only two of the six kids have college degrees - my brother, who is a cardiologist, and me, ... We we...
JIM CALHOUN

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ADLAI E. STEVENSON The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a politica...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a spee...
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.