Environment Quotes

"I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football"

James Cameron, Director

"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap"

Robert Casey, Politician

"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine"

John Baldacci, Politician

"I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on"

Mos Def, Musician

"Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her"

Jung Chang, Writer

"Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it"

James Woods, Actor

"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous"

Peter King, Politician

"Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment"

Hugh Grant, Actor

"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience"

Hugh Mackay

"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball"

James Lafferty, Actor

"I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman"

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Journalist

"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

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