Top 190 Stamp Quotes

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it’s almost as if the magic number of how much cash you’ve managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business’s true worth.

The Book of Mormon is the ‘keystone’ of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the ‘capstone,’ with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.

Hopefully, when we’re done with the ‘Korra’ saga we can put our stamp on a movie.

Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

I mean whatever I do it’s important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I’m doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.

It’s important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I’m not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That’s about all you can do.

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn’t have a lot, but I never felt I was at a loss for anything.

Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

I don’t really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It’s just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

I’ve made my stamp on the earth. My name will go down in history, and if I never want to work again, I don’t have to.

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people’s lives.

The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you’ve ever been able to create before.

My toenails are out of my foot because of all the stamps I have received during games. But it’s fine. This is the Premier League and the way they play here.

You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can be useful to your campaign, and you ask them to donate money, door-knock, the virtual equivalent of being a sort of army of stamp lickers.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.

I’m really going to put a stamp on my career by beating Cruz.

Ideally, I’d really like to put my own stamp on things, but it takes years, you know, and you’re constantly learning and studying and falling in and out with your instrument, learning different approaches and different attacks.

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called ‘culture of dependency’ on welfare – welfare defined as ‘free stuff’ and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

Look, isn’t there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called ‘scraps from Massa’s table.’

The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the ‘New Hampshire Gazette’ appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

‘The Last Pictures’ is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we’ve made to the world around us. Having said that, every person in the world would have done the project differently, so in that sense, I guess it bears my creative stamp.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

Some people collect stamps; I like fashion, discovering nice new things. I feel good about doing that.

‘S.N.L.’ is the comedy establishment. Of course you want to go through that, because you want that stamp of approval. But it has its own identity, and our voices didn’t mesh for whatever reason – or they decided we didn’t belong.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

Let’s be clear: the American people didn’t give the GOP a stamp of approval or a mandate to ram through an ideologically-driven, far-right agenda.

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market’s doing today or what the GDP number is? No.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she’s gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

I don’t like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they’re not very good scientists. They’re more like stamp collectors.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

I wouldn’t do autographs – I had a stamp with my signature with, of course, perfect penmanship.

I have memories of the time when I was younger and when I believed in Santa Claus, which was the best part of Christmas. Back then, I wrote to Santa every year, hoping that my mom would post the letter with a stamp to the North Pole!

Yeah, I guess generally I don’t want things ever to be easy. While there’s some danger of doing something that loses your personal stamp on things, I’d rather take the chance of doing that and do something slightly uncomfortable or hard for myself.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

I’m an anorak. I’ve always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we’re running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

Should Americans take care of their brothers and sisters? Absolutely. We all have an obligation as individuals to care for the poor. And, yes, there is a role for government and even food stamps in this equation.

Before I got the contract, I’d heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.