Quotes About Awareness

I feel, if I criticize my country, it's not because I don't like my country. I love my country. That is my patriotism. I want to make it a better place for my children, for everyone. And if we don't look at what's in front of us, and we allow things to get out of hand because of other vested interests, then as citizens are not doing a good job.

A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

You don't really realize when you become a 'veteran' - it just sort of happens.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.

I'm trying to raise awareness for veterans.

Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

I try to stay involved with veterans' issues. I work with some veterans charities.

People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness.

We've got to do more to help these veterans who are suffering from brain injuries and PTSD.

I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

I am vibe oriented and am able to read people right most of the time.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don't agree.

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

Once you attain stardom, you lose that finer touch with society. When you are a man on the street, you get to know every vibration. But once you attain this status, more than you, people become self-conscious by your presence.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

My dad was a vicar and my mum was a primary school teacher, so I was always aware of being in a very supportive family.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.