Quotes About Values

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Often when I'm trying to make tough decisions, I rely on the lessons my father taught me and ask myself, 'What Would Tony Say?'

You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

I agree it is the most important, but cycling is not only about Tour. If everybody thinks like Armstrong, there will be only one race.

Why blow money on a tour bus when you could get your mom a nice dress?

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

My work has taught me to pay great respects towards human beings.

I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.

You're gaining more than you're losing in a small town.

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

Our parents were very prim and proper, but we always got one toy every day. That was a ritual. The money didn't really matter.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I like to think that people who really know me understand I am the same person - and that is something I will always fight to maintain. Obviously the money is there, but I want to stay the same. At the same time, I want my son to enjoy what I didn't have. My father-in-law often looks at all the toys and games Benjamin has.