171 County Quotes for You to Enjoy

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States. Elyn Saks

National States Scandal Must Mental Mental Illness Facility County Tragedy Jail Stop Psychiatric Biggest Illness United United States

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. Isabel Allende

Time You Memories Culture Guilt Past State Characteristics Border City Cross Most County Always Leave West Traditions North North American American Move Behind Move Forward American Culture Again Forward Start

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. John W. Gardner

Strength Courage Judgment Eloquence Find Some Diverse Leaders Come County Qualities Styles Hear Quiet Forms Next Many

Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results. Alan Cheuse

We've always got to look for opportunities for our English coaches to get more experience than just doing county coaching gigs. They need to do more than that if they're going to be viable candidates for England jobs going forward. Andrew Strauss

Experience Opportunities Our Jobs Gigs More Look County Always Got Doing Than Get Viable Going Candidates Just Coaches Coaching England English Forward Need

I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids. Anjelica Huston

Alone Together Lonely Other Other Kids Kids Neither Brother See Adult Never Bound Countryside County Forced Him Because Tightly Were Nor West Ireland Very Irish Close Child Quite Middle Children Really Many Tony

When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home. Aron Ralston

Myself Home Winter Will About Case Parked Contact Vehicle Name County Climb Leave Sheriff Get Where Information Peak

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. Arthur Capper

Government Business Others Consolidating Some Similar Simplified Performance County Making Reducing Private Salaries Greatly Offices Duties Paid Keeping

My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show. Barrett Foa

Great Experience People Spelling Broadway Broadway Show Favorite Great Show Day-To-Day County Annual Bee Were Just So Much Fun Much Show Fun

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Berkeley Breathed

Nature Cleaning Lose Pay Once Draw Papers Bet More Could Write Over County Half-Life Years Bloom Than Established Nose Lady Next Twenty Waste Nuclear

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land. Beverly Lewis

People Mother Old Farm Horse County Cousins Up Very Close Order Grew Lancaster Land Lived Amish Near

I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes. Bill Medley

The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin.' Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n' roll, and then, boy, it became something else. Bill Medley

Time Great Singing Else Dramatic Righteous Brothers Something Something Else Guys Having Records Like County Couple Great Time Became Because Felt Boy Rock Got Rock-N-Roll Were Hit Hit Records Roll Orange Orange County Just Heavy Then Bobby Who

All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack. Bill Medley

Great Memories Rat Think Frank Frank Sinatra Kids Brought Rat Pack Vegas Hotel Sinatra County Were Dumb Than Lounge Orange Orange County Being Bigger Pack Sands Us Worked Bobby Las Vegas Two

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. Billy Bob Thornton

Me Baby Fattest Clark Put Arkansas Like County Prize Newspaper

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor. Bob Ney

Today Great Needs Victory Great Deal Thanks Others Local Our Project District Determine County House Deal Closely Officials Mayors Worked Transportation Many Deserve Floor

Personally, I'm incredibly lucky to represent the 10th district of Illinois, which stretches from the edges of Cook county all the way north along Lake Michigan to the borders of Wisconsin. From the lake all the way west to Fox Lake. It's an incredible district. Brad Schneider

I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from. Bruce Braley

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county. Catherine Helen Spence

Best School Brothers Parish County

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it. Claire Coffee

Family Theatre Thought First Few Young Think Everyone Way Would Would-Be Shape No-One Since County Involved Industry Doing Five Mountain Did Any Form Then Show Company Play Started Kept Plays

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County. Claude Rains

Work Home Me County Place Hollywood

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented. Conor Oberst

Needs Me World Long Intolerance Has-Been Joe All The World See Beacon He Attention Abuse County Well Documented Been Years List Committed Getting Human Help

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