motto
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"We have lived long and endured for 60 years and going," he said, evoking the famous motto of Leonard Nimoy's Mr Spock.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
But plenty of people, including a lot of religious folks who did not appreciate their motto turned into a truck commercial, did not.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Mr. Schatz doesn’t quote William Goldman’s maxim about the movie industry—“nobody knows anything”—but it could stand as his book’s motto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"True to the motto of this city, I am going to do things differently," Andy Burnham declared, a reference to the film 24 Hour Party People.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
She said those words so often they had become the Tucker family motto.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
The team writing the mottoes for next year’s batch of Sweethearts has already developed a new theme aimed at that demographic sweet spot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
He has outfitted it with solar panels and inscribed it with positive mottoes, including “Always Be Compassion” scrawled across the hood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
We’ve broken quietude in new ways, re-examined what we thought we knew, carried phrases as mottoes, or leverage.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Navy’s team captains have chosen mottoes for several seasons, and they quickly replaced this year’s original choice with “Win the day.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2019
It became one of Elizebeth’s favorite mottoes, too.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
"Leading by example is one of my biggest traits and my biggest mottos I try to live by. Whenever I'm on that pitch I try and do my best for the country."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Even when the season felt like a shadow of what it once was, her voice — her methods, her mottos, her insistence that anyone could learn — persisted.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
One of Sheinbaum’s mottos: “Collaboration, coordination, without subordination. ... Sovereignty is not negotiable.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
“In adopting their mottos, symbols, and ethos on the field of friendly strife, we seek to emulate their application of these characteristics to defeat our rivals,” the school said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Granddad is the sort of person who has mottos.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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