Top 454 Primary Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Primary Quotes from famous people such as Ashwin Sanghi, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Craig Kielburger, Sherwin B. Nuland, Guy Standing, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Cha

A western audience might not appreciate ‘Chanakya’s Chant’ because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.
Ashwin Sanghi
I didn’t have the best time at primary school so reading a book was my way of getting away from whatever was upsetting me.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
There’s no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.
Craig Kielburger
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
Sherwin B. Nuland
A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.
Guy Standing
The elites have become international, and they’ve ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.
Jeff Sessions
I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.
Peter Billingsley
The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child’s life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child’s resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
Jane Fonda
Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
Jan Schakowsky
From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity – none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.
Amanda de Cadenet
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
Pope Benedict XVI
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
When I was younger, I played football and table tennis for local teams. I also played mini-rugby at primary school – I was tall for my age – and Preston Grasshoppers wanted me, but I wasn’t that interested in rugby. It was always going to be cricket for me.
Andrew Flintoff
The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the ‘battlefield’ is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited ‘battlefield.’
Glenn Greenwald
As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
Walt Mossberg
In 2010, I ran for Congress in a Democratic primary against someone who had been there for 18 years. ‘The Daily News’ endorsed me. I was in ‘The New York Times’ above the fold. CNBC called this one of the hottest races in the country. On election day, votes for me never went past 19%. I lost.
Reshma Saujani
I’ve said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda.
David Cunliffe
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese
I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.
Rajkumar Hirani
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
Bill Gates
For the U.S., the primary interest is our continued access to Saudi Arabian oil in adequate quantities… at an acceptable political as well as economic price.
William E. Simon
Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people’s choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
Arthur Capper
If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you’re not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.
Max Burns
Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.
Charles Boustany
I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
Robert Casey
I promise you, I promise you that Donald Trump knows, Donald Trump knows that the primary role of the president is to keep us safe.
Michael T. Flynn
The primary focus on us is making Roblox into an international, global platform that allows people to come together and do things together from all walks of life.
David Baszucki
I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.
Emma Watson
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
Queen Rania of Jordan
I am upset at the way I was removed… With a heavy heart, I resign from the primary membership of the AAP.
Gurpreet Ghuggi
I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
Rainbow Rowell
My mom is still whispering in my ear, 'Look as good as

My mom is still whispering in my ear, ‘Look as good as you can.’ She taught me that being the best you can be in your appearance as well as your intellect was primary.
Jeanine Pirro
One of the primary purposes of civilization – and certainly its primary strength – is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
Robert Kennedy
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander
In primary schools, I set two main objectives – to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
David Blunkett
Ironically, Hillary Clinton’s appointment in 2008 as secretary of state was forced on Obama by her presidential campaign supporters, who insisted she play a major role in the then-new Democratic administration after a bruising primary fight.
Richard Grenell
Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.
Azim Premji
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
Hart Crane
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can’t appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
Jason Calacanis
Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I’d be a very unhealthy person without it.
Greg Wise
I understand people want to feel safe when they go to the theatre, thats the primary and most important thing.
Nigel Havers
My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
Alan Garner
Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.
Richard Rohr
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50’s and 60’s and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
Walter Becker
In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
Catherine Jinks
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Jean Guitton
To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I’m a primary example. America don’t care nothing about human rights.
Anthony Ray Hinton
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
Tom Vilsack
In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire – a need that drives her story – and the story’s writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.
Darin Strauss
I have a specialization in a very particular area: the presidential primary process.
Steve Kornacki
After the 2012 election, ‘independent’ becomes the popular choice among new young voters and stays that way with the exception of a brief spike around the 2016 Democratic primary fight.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.
Terry McMillan
I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.
Nita Ambani
WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians practicing in West Virginia are graduates of the Osteopathic School.
Jim Justice
When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
Maisie Williams
If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there’s nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.
Leon Panetta
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Roger Tory Peterson