“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.” FirstsTwoStatesCultureLostUnitedUnited StatesChildhoodNew YorkBrotherTvsMomInternetConnectionsMovedMy MomDecadesBordersSpokesCablesArgentinaTwo BrothersCable TvChildhood Friend Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.” IfsFirstsNextCausesSidesUnitedGoes OnConnectionsUnionsValuableMotiveBritainCheerAlliesSpeakersPrincipalRapidsNeighbourColonyGreat Britain Book:Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union Source: Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union
“After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.” WorldTwoStatesHomeLeftUnitedUnited StatesSupportNeededPeriodsActivitySpringResearchMy FamilyConnectionsDecidedArmyPursueAlternativesGuestsBedroomUnitsAutobiographyInvasionInstituteVergeBelgiumBrussels Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini
“If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.” IfsStatesTogetherUnitedUnited StatesCuttingPolicyInternetConnectionsImpactPlantCoreTiesTargetAdversariesBackboneBacklashPower PlantsInternet Connection Author:Edward Snowden
“I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.” PeopleStatesNamesPresidentWaterUnitedUnited StatesPlanetsDegreesSixConnectionsBoundsSeparationChineseTortureTrailsComfortingVeniceSix Degrees Of Separation Author:John Guare
“In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. American's can be so prude sometimes.” DifferentSometimesStatesReasonAmericaUnitedUnited StatesAspectConnectionsBad ThingsUnited States Of AmericaNudityPrudes Author:Erin Wasson
“Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.” IfsWellsStatesUnitedCompanyTechnologyUnited StatesConnectionsMexicoSuppliers Author:Barack Obama
“Along with church monies and the United Way, most of the others that I give the most to are organizations for which I have some personal connection in that they have affected family members; i.e., kidney, cancer, heart, and organ donation. My wife and I have also contributed to and been heavily involved with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah County.” WayGivingHeartGirlChurchUnitedBoysWifeInvolvedMembersConnectionsOrganizationCancerClubsMy WifeAffectedOrgansCountyFamily MembersBoy And GirlDonationKidneysUtahPersonal ConnectionOrgan DonationUnited Way Author:LaVell Edwards
“That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.” StatesPoliticalUnitedOughtConnectionsIndependentIndependenceBritishBritainCrownsDeclaration4th Of JulyAllegianceColonyDeclaration Of IndependenceGreat BritainUnalienable RightsHappy 4th Of July4th Of July MilitaryPolitical Independence Author:Richard Henry Lee
“Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.” StatesActionPresidentChurchUnitedUnited StatesOfficeConnectionsConstitutionSeparationPresidentialDistinctionThank GodCreedsChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateAppointmentsSeparation Between Church And State Author:James K. Polk