We share common values as San Franciscans: we help each other; we welcome newcomers; we innovate and learn; we focus on facts; we work together; and we find creative solutions.
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
I just hope that some of the movies I’m in are still welcome years from now.
I have said many times that racist and bigots are not welcome in our party… The journalists who don’t want to recognize this and keep coming back with questions of bigotry can just take a hike.
We’ll be ‘outsourcing’ our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it’s going to happen.
So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn’t always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
I’m not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
As a trans person, I don’t feel welcome in most public spaces. Especially now with Trump, I don’t feel faith or recognize that we’re protected by the government or administration.
Poverty is not just about income: it’s about aspiration. It’s not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
I’m not against making new fans, but I’m not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that’s not who we are. It’s not as if we’re fighting to find an audience – we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.
To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It’s great not to be the only member any more!
No one is different from the other. I’m very grateful that I have a diverse group of fans as well. We welcome individuality over here in my world, and I think that my fans can see and feel that.
I compete with the ‘Welcome To Las Vegas’ sign for the number one non-gaming tourist attraction in Las Vegas. I get more visitors than the Hoover Dam.
As an actress, you’re perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear – when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed – is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.
Of course, the E.U. were never going to welcome Brexit. Some sour grapes were inevitable. That’s why we worked hard to leave on positive terms, extending the arm of friendship.
There’s a new holiday tradition in my life, and it comes with an open door policy. Starting at 11 a.m. on Christmas Day, friends, family, whoever, is welcome to swing on through my place – I’ll be cooking and drinking from morning till night.
Israel’s capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
For those of us on the front lines fighting Washington’s power grabs, Judge Gorsuch’s commitment to interpreting the Constitution and the laws as they are actually written is welcome news.
I was born in the Eighties, and at that time the idea of having a mixed-race child wasn’t welcome. Then I was also an unusual mix nobody was used to seeing. So people weren’t very accepting of me in the beginning, but later that changed.
We all think we’ve got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We’ll overstay our welcome.
It’s interesting: when your wife is pregnant and you’re expecting, everyone’s like, ‘It’s incredible. Get ready. It’s magic. It’s the most life-changing experience you’ll ever have. Brace yourself for heaven.’ And then the second the baby comes, everyone’s like, ‘Welcome to hell! Ha ha ha! You fool!’
I really like Manchester City. They have put everything into trying to sign me so that I can be there and that is welcome.
I welcome the powers of the unknown.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn’t be welcome at the White House.
Yes, population is a huge problem – birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we have to make sure that every child that comes here, that arrives, knows that he or she is welcome, is going to be cared for and honored.
Awards are lovely and always welcome.
I would like ‘Frost’ to go on forever, but you don’t want people in the press hammering you, saying you’ve outstayed your welcome or that it’s not believable anymore.
There’s only so much you can talk about football. Anytime you can get into a conversation that’s not political, it’s a welcome change.
It’s not hard to figure out when you’re not welcome.
We are a people unafraid to welcome ‘your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,’ because we measure others by the quality of their hopes for the future, not by the circumstances of their birth.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
The United States welcomes China’s commitment to engage in arms control negotiations.
A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it was vandalized so much, it was finally taken down for good.
It felt like home to be working with so many powerful women – Lizzo, Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu. I felt so welcome and loved.
I do not agree with many of the views that have been expressed by our MPs, but they are of course welcome to express them – and everyone knows that is the Green Party ethos.
There’s as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I’d love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
I very happily stand for the right of every man and woman in Pennsylvania to have their voice heard in elections. And when they do have their voice heard, it’s nothing short of a privilege to welcome and respect that voice because this is a democracy, and that’s what we do.
When you decorate with neon beer lights, it’s hard to create a class divide. So, the dive bar is an institution that welcomes every kind of person.
On ‘MADtv,’ I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!’ Surprisingly, there’s more call for that one than you’d think.
In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers… He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens – welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you’re here.
In a democracy, a person’s vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone’s voice was welcome at the voting booth.
We should be a nation that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and ensures that everyone gets a fair day in court.
As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it’s virtually impossible. It’s very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
We welcome the interest from PE firms, as we see it as a sign of our progress, and my position is that we should always open the doors to those who want to bring capital to our industry.
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.