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Quotes About Pledge

The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed
~ Gary Chapman
This Palamon answered, "I do agree." And, thus, did they part till the morrow, when each of them had pledged upon his faith to return. Oh, Cupid, who knows no Charity! Oh, Monarch, who reigns alone! Truly is it said that neither Love nor Lordship will willingly brook any challenge, as full well have Arcita and Palamon found.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
~ Ron Fournier
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke—Ay!—and what then?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
~ Mark Bowden
I will not forget this one moment in my life, she promised herself
~ Shirley Jackson
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
I pledge my shade to the eternal torment of the one called Gaea!
~ John Varley
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250 000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
~ Barack Obama
I'll never change the name of the Redskins. You have my word on that.
~ Daniel Snyder
In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.
~ John Barrasso
You take an oath to defend the constitution. Congress is the next chapter of our national service. We pledged an oath to defend the constitution and that means working together to make our constituents' lives better.
~ Elissa Slotkin
to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.
~ Mark Twain
Daddy," the boy said, "I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will sneak off. If you think I deserve to be punished for that, I'll just have to take the punishment. For, you see, I'm not doing this only because I want to be free. I'm doing it also because I want freedom for you and Mama, and I want it to come before you die.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian, has made the issue his white whale.
~ Jonah Goldberg
I, Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger Isis solemnly swear on
~ Ben Aaronovitch
President Trump has made good on that pledge by fighting anti-Semitism at home and abroad and by standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel, the historical homeland and refuge for the Jewish people.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
~ Mahmoud Abbas
The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no matter what he was.
~ Gregory David Roberts
If you will come back and make that pledge, God will heal your heart tonight.
~ Benny Hinn
And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.
~ Eric Cantor
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
~ Barack Obama