A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me. – Elizabeth Debicki
One of the things that’s beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It’s really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it’s not a weakness. – Mitch Landrieu
All I can tell you is that I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy. – Diane von Furstenberg
They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength. – Curtis Joseph
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there. – Diana Ross
The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him. – Charles A. Beard
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength. – Matthew Perry
I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have. – Evita Peron
What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion. – Geraldine Ferraro
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. – Dalai Lama
I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn’t my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar. – David Gilmour
We need strength and success elsewhere in our country – not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up. – George Osborne
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. – Dag Hammarskjold
We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join. – Donald Tusk
I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel. – Danny Danon
I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way. – Ed Walsh
We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina. – Donald Trump
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. – Emmet Fox
I try to keep it in a very low impact – I have scoliosis, so exercises can be really hard on my back, whether it’s too much running, jumping or boxing. I’ll do those things once in a while, but I keep it mostly Pilates, resistance-band based, softer exercises that build strength from inside the muscle. – Martha Hunt
We’ve worked very hard as a band and would like to think we’ve got this far on the strength of our music. – Caroline Corr
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria. – Edward Grey
School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals. – Donna Brazile
Though narrative cohesion isn’t the strength of ‘Mean Girls,’ which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined ‘Ridgemont High’ and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes. – Elvis Mitchell
The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring. – Eduardo Galeano
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won’t have much strength and, eventually, we won’t have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a ‘robust strategy.’ – Mitch Daniels
The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center. – Michael Douglas
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country’s strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such. – Ellen Key
