Quotes About Priorities

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

I'd rather climb 14a and eat whatever I want than climb 14d and measure out my food.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.