Citizen Quotes

Citizen Quote of the day

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.

You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

I think of myself as a global citizen.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is, that's secondary.