Delaware Quotes - Page 2

• Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

  Michael N. Castle

  Together We Can, Working Together, Students

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• Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

  Michael N. Castle

  Teaching, School, Nursing

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• Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Real, Cutting, President

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• The vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In addition, the vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report is aimed at counties that are more rural than Delaware County. We believe Shideler is too densely populated for an ag park.

  Thurman Munson

  Believe, Vision, Parks

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• New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

  Richard Florida

  New York, Alaska, Kentucky

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• Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, Historical

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• Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a loud, gurgling groan. Somebody shouted, "Oh my gosh! Miss Delaware just died!" "--- for gettin some of us here safe," Taylor continued. "And we pray that, as we are fine, upstandin', law-abidin' girls who represent the best of the best, you will protect us from harm and keep us safe until we are rescued and can tell our story to People magazine. Amen." - "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Jesus, Queens

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.

  Will Rogers

  Children, Fall, Party

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Abortion, Warning

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• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  Jack Markell

  Sports, Law, East

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• Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

  Michael N. Castle

  College, Choices, African American

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• Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Ideas, May, Recycling

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• The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.

  Jim Gerlach

  Years, Population, Industrialization

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• Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community, i might add if you ever come to the train station with me you'll notice I have great relationships with them because there's an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I'm not being solicitous. I'm being serious.

  Joe Biden

  Real, Home, Cities

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• Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

  Michael N. Castle

  Race, Diversity, Excellence

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• Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

  Thomas Carper

  Firefighter, Effort, Safe

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• When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

  Michael N. Castle

  Reality, Choices, Social

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