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Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on that very day, I was placed in chains and transferred: The wind remains contrary to the flight of the eagle. -- Ho Chi Minh
The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets. -- Damon Thayer
I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day. -- Willie Aames
We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day. -- Nigel Lythgoe
I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load. -- Tinie Tempah
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. -- Walt Disney
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. -- Brendan I. Koerner
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day. -- John Bracken
One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience. -- Lee H. Hamilton
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. -- Paul D. Boyer
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. -- Bruce Barton
When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team. -- Brandi Chastain
On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands. -- Seth Low
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools. -- Nick Rahall
I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement. -- King Hussein I
The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born. -- Douglas Brinkley
I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes. -- Wendy E. Long
Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office. -- James Dobson
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things. -- John Fuller
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. -- Stockwell Day
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people. -- Laraine Day
If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends. -- George Carlin
The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives. -- Richard Littlejohn
Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What're you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day? -- Richelle Mead
Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war. -- George Carlin
Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement? -- Alan Caruba
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. -- George Vecsey
The seed has been sown that will grow one day . . . to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation. -- Adolf Hitler
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick. -- RuPaul
Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC. -- Andy Burnham
Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees. -- Jonathan Falwell
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one. -- Mitch McConnell
If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less. -- Earl Nightingale
I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day. -- Eric Cantor
Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same. -- Garry Kasparov

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