Quotation quiz

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Name:  Mohammed Al Ghaithi     ID# H00254813      &     Name: Rashed Alamoudi    ID# H00253406

With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quote in your own words from your own ideas:

Cultural Views

Speaker	Quote	Meaning
Dwight Eisenhower	A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	Holding on to your principles is necessary to get privileges and freedom
Martin Luther King Jr.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	A man cannot live alone without the help of the community.
Sheik Zayed	A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future. Thanks to God, our nation has a flourishing civilization, deep-rooted in this land for many centuries. These roots will always flourish and bloom in the glorious present of our nation and in its anticipated future.	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
Amin Maalouf	Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices.	Sometimes being loyal to a country creates conflicts between people with different perspectives.
Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	Culture has a big value and influence on its locals
Amin Maalouf	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	People should respect the rights of men and women as much as they respect their traditions
ML King Jr.	I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	Every human individual affects the other therefor we cannot be humans without each other
Frank Borman	It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	Love should be all around the world instead of being limited in a countries border
DD. Eisenhower	The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
Sheik Zayed	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	After going with a war with other country for the benefits of its natural wealth, after a long-term period of war they bound together , the Arabs can’t be like them
ML King Jr.	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	I wish one day that the black and white people will be treated as equals and not to be discriminated by their race and be judged by their characters instead.
Amin Maalouf	For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.	The way you look at people determines how allegiance they could be.