#grant

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#america #appreciation #benefits #better #continued

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#assertive #began #both #british #canada

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted. ↗

— Tom Petty

#been #done #granted #i #i think

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#could #frustrated #get #granted #i

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too. ↗

— Billy Preston

#earl #grant #had #him #home

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#crime #firsthand #grants #home #home state

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws. ↗

— John Shadegg

#flagrant #gambling #internet #laws #necessary

People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side. ↗

— Tom Snyder

#immigrant #know #people #result #side

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#american #committed #continue #country #equality