Mike Easley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.
-- Mike Easley

#Believe #Sunset #Years
Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.
-- Mike Easley

#Real #Choices #Vision
We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
-- Mike Easley

#People #North Carolina #Common
As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.
-- Mike Easley

#Two #Priorities #North Carolina
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
-- Mike Easley

#Successful #Priorities #Economy
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
-- Mike Easley

#Country #School #College
What people need to do is conserve what they have, .. There is a supply out there; we just need to conserve it. Going up and loading up your tank is not going to do that much. It's just going to deplete the supply, and the problem will eventually catch up to you.
-- Mike Easley

#People #Needs #Tanks

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

Mike Easley famous quotes

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