#importance

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#importance #life

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

#feed #food #four #grew #i

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#asthma #attack #attended #child #children

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#importance #important #individual #only #society

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#florida #highlights #importance #known #making

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#appreciates #importance #israel #me #more

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#i #importance #leisure #lives #many

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones. ↗

— Jon Porter

#burial #congress #ensuring #families #i

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#directly proportional #importance #improbability #information #proportional

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#comes #consider #equal #every #every man