All Quotes

Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.
‐‐ John Prendergast

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
‐‐ Idris Elba

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
‐‐ Tanit Phoenix

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
‐‐ Sebastian Vettel

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'
‐‐ James Iha

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
‐‐ Franco Harris

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.
‐‐ Guy Lafleur

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
‐‐ Edgar Bergen

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
‐‐ Kyra Sedgwick

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
‐‐ David Minge

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
‐‐ Menachem Begin

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
‐‐ Howard Coble

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.
‐‐ Joe Sakic

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
‐‐ Marla Gibbs

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
‐‐ Pat Toomey

After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

After 2012, there's been a shift in humanity, society and economics. We're witnessing a transition: everything is changing really fast - with that comes a wanting to see and believe, and faith and spirituality come into play. I think the world is now more spiritual than it ever was because people are searching for answers.
‐‐ Juan Pablo Di Pace

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
‐‐ Barack Obama

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
‐‐ Eliot Spitzer

After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent. Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy grew in total by roughly 40 percent. After the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, the economy grew by a total of 34 percent.
‐‐ Lawrence Kudlow

After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.
‐‐ Thomas G. Stemberg

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
‐‐ Jim Crace

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.
‐‐ Kenneth H. Cooper

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
‐‐ Gene Siskel

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.
‐‐ James H. Clark

After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
‐‐ Luanne Rice

After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.
‐‐ Cherry Jones

After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values.
‐‐ Matt Bevin

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.
‐‐ Essence Atkins

After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.
‐‐ Mark-Paul Gosselaar

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.
‐‐ April Gornik

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell