Quotes About Promise

I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.

I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

I don't know anything about cars. I can promise you that.

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.

When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God.

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.

I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.

I traced the marley floor with my pointe shoes, and imagine myself on the stage, not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. It felt right. It felt like a promise. Some day, somehow, it was going to happen for me.

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment.

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze, Arabs, Circassians. I will be prime minister for the center and for the periphery, for students and senior citizens.

We are in a good place. Her name is Crystal Renay. She has much promise. Yes, much promise. Quality.

The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.

This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy - but we'll get there together.

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.

We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.