Quotes About Fundraiser

In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.

A great pair of jeans works anywhere from a campaign rally to a fancy fundraiser.

eyed the assembly. "C'mon. Let's not have another incident like the Orphans Fundraiser." There were apparently many pairs of shoes that suddenly required close attention. "Not a one? Really? Well . . . Izzy will be the first, then." A small, almost perfectly spherical girl, half hidden among the packed audience, raised her hands to her mouth.

I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week, my parents bought me a real acoustic guitar, and I started taking guitar lessons.

If a bright-coated fundraiser was hassling a confused pensioner in the street, people would see, some hero would intervene. But it's happening in living rooms on landlines, and it will continue.

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

The real issue at the Capitol Ministries fund-raiser is that the proponents of this antidemocratic vision no longer seem to feel the need to disguise their ambitions. They, too, are getting ready to king.

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side." Three wide smiles. "Oh shut up.

There's a big Alzheimer's benefit in a couple of weeks. A charity ball is right after that. We eat, we smile, we pose. No balls. None. I'm sorry to hear that. Have you talked to a doctor?

Buddha: 'Onward! Forward to the fund-raiser.' Mahavira: 'Onward! Forward to - wait a minute. Did I hear someone swat a mosquito?

I went and campaigned for Ken Cuccinelli and did a fund-raiser for Ken Cuccinelli. He's not from my faction of the Republican Party, but you know what? When the nominee is chosen, we have got to come together, or we will never lead.

To make matters worse, the CEO was wearing a red clown's nose made of foam. It was the UK's Comic Relief Day, a nationwide fund-raiser where everyone wears red clown noses to raise money for charity. The rejection seemed like a bad joke indeed.

the Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring - the event was able to amass 2.3 million smiles for the school

It's very easy to do a fundraiser and spend a lot of money on food and venue and not raise any money. You really do need to twist people's arms into giving, even if they support you.

I decided to join the Challenged Athletes Foundation's cycling tour from San Francisco to San Diego, a fundraiser to help veterans and others with physical disabilities find renewed purpose through sports. The journey revealed why we must invest not only in stronger communities, but also stronger ties with each other.

Recall that in April 2008 candidate Obama—unaware that a blogger was recording his remarks at a private fundraiser for moneyed Bay Area radicals—dismissed religion as a consolation for the "bitter" in Middle America. Contained within this one remark was the seed of secularist bigotry toward the religious that would come to full and odorous flower in his first term.

Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with