#held

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#back #citizens #coming #contemplating #heard

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#city #create #democratic #forever #foundation

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#delude #elections #government #held #into

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#being #cultural #culture #disintegration #good

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan. ↗

— John Linder

#across #battle #been #beginnings #day

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #birthright #citizenship #considering #deserve

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#any #broad #come #conclusion #experience

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

#break #could #determination #duty #fast

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. ↗

— Martin Luther

#hands #held #i #lost #many

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#cast #england #ever #had #huxley