Greeting Quotes

A greeting message is good advertising for Berlin, especially for international visitors... We want them to come to Berlin. But anyone who has a problem with it doesn't have to go to the (S&M) event. - Klaus Wowereit

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. - Maya Angelou

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. - Unknown

[The ceremony of greeting the guests when they arrive is also Balinese.] Very much so... I mean the Balinese are a very welcoming race and there's a sense of pride in having you as a guest come to their home, and the resort is in many ways representative of their home. - Neil Jacobs

[Pretending is indeed the Washington game. Pretend independence, for instance. Recall House Speaker Sam Rayburn's attributed standard greeting to new Democrat members of Congress, per:] Remember, to get along, go along. ... There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. - Will Rogers

[Greeting a crowd of 100 supporters at a campaign stop Sunday, Lieberman announced the poll results to an explosion of applause. Introducing his wife, he jokingly put down Clark.] One of the other candidates has Madonna... I have Hadassah. - Joe Lieberman