Best Council Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It's no secret that some of the worst abusers of digital technologies hold a veto in the Security Council. But that is precisely why we must engage in tough diplomacy. We cannot cede our digital futures to governments that would misuse and abuse these technologies.”

“Russia shouldn't even be on the Security Council, but they are a permanent member of the council, and we can't change that.”

“I went to art college for two years and I absolutely loved it. I was this shy, kind of fuzzy-haired idiot from a council estate - and to some extent I still am.”

“I always considered myself working class, because I was brought up on a council estate. I still do, really. I mean, I might have a bit more money now than I did then, but it's in your head, class, I think. It's how you feel in there.”

“I came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.”

“I grew up on a council estate, but I still had a roof over my head, we still had food, I went on school trips. I wasn't completely deprived.”

“I didn't come from a council estate like a lot of the lads do.”

“We lived in the top-floor council flat, the same level as the flyovers going past the window. I loved it. I used to imagine who the people were, what they were doing, what their lives were like.”

“I've come far from being a foster kid growing up in a council house.”

“I grew up on a council estate. No one was working in our house.”

“The U.K.'s relationship with China is strong, growing and delivering benefits for both our countries. As permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, we are working together to tackle global issues of the 21st century.”

“It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.”

“You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.”

“Just like you have a fashion council in Delhi to organise fashion shows, promote Indian fashion, etc, there must be such a body for films as well, especially because Delhi is now becoming the hub for movie shoots.”

“In Sydney, it's not sustainable to have 41 council entities.”

“I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.”

“I've been really humbled by other women who've reached out to me across the country. Not just women who are running for Congress and federal office, but elementary school students running for student council or high school students who are their class presidents.”

“I lived in Pollards Hill in a council estate with my parents until I was about seven and then they wanted to move to Croydon, to Purley.”

“Growing up on a council estate in Hackney, you didn't show emotion or vulnerability.”

“I was happy living in a high-rise council estate in Glasgow up until our sixth album.”

“Council house sales defined the new freedoms that transformed this country in the 1980s.”

“I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.”

“In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town Council.”

“I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate that overlooked the Tyne and I went to the same junior school as Paul Gascoigne, of whom I have a vague memory.”

“I know the International Cricket Council are very strict about what you are allowed to do and what looks good on TV, but you can't let that take away from your natural game.”

“I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.”

“Some people write me off as a bit of a hick from an Essex council estate. I realize that. But I can read.”

“For President Bush, the first, the 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, I spent all 4 years of his presidency on the staff for the National Security Council.”

“We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.”

“I'm very tough. Come to a council meeting, and you'll see it.”

“A study by the Parents Television Council, a media watchdog group, found scenes of graphic violence and gore are increasing in TV dramas - and particularly on NBC.”

“U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.”

“For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.”

“I wanted to be able to support myself without begging for handouts from the state. All of the writers I knew when I was a student were all getting grants from the Scottish Arts Council.”

“I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.”

“Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.”

“I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.”

“The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.”

“Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.”

“I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.”

“It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.”

“That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human rights. We've got countries on the Human Rights Council right now like Venezuela and Cuba.”

“In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.”

“I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.”

“I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.”

“If the Government put people before markets, it would build more council housing - a form of public investment in housing that pays for itself while offering refuge to those who most need it.”

“When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.”

“Where I grew up, in Harold Hill, it was rough and it still is now. I used to live in a little council flat, next to the shops, and there was always trouble, people getting stabbed.”

“Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.”

“Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.”

“You know, I never walk into a room feeling as if I'm in the room as a Black woman. When I walk into the Security Council, I'm the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Security Council, and that's what I tell young women when I meet them.”

“Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.”

“They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.”

“I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.”

“I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.”

“We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.”

“The Situation Room is a room that I've had the privilege of working in as staff on the White House National Security Council. It is a room where the most consequential decisions are made. It's a room where the safety and security of our country is decided. Where the lives of people are determined.”

“Donald Trump is President of the United States and his National Security Council works for him. If he wants to fire someone, so be it.”

“Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.”

“Good council has no price.”

“The invention of council housing originally offered the poor a way of knowing they were valuable. You had security of tenure.”

“And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.”

“I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'”

“In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court's jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”

“One of the problems with the Security Council is that there are vetoes, and they do not allow us to do what might be justified from the point of view of sanctions.”

“'Born to Do It' took a kid out of a council estate and put my mum into a home of her own. It changed my whole family's situation, and all from doing something that I loved.”

“If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.”

“You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.”

“I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing.”

“I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.”

“There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I'd even paid a penny of tax.”

“As a member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council, I recognize our mission to spread the word and rally the country in the fight to end hunger.”

“Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.”

“The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.”

“I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.”

“When you grow up in a council flat, sometimes living on top of members of your crew, the feeling of community is intense.”

“When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.”

“The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.”

“I grew up moving from one council flat to another and finished up in a three-bedroom semi-detached on a council estate in Cranford, a suburb of Hounslow. This was in the days when there was still rationing, and we had to be thrifty.”

“Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.”

“I don't want to work for the government, the president's administration, the State Duma, or the Federation Council.”

“With So Solid, we had overnight success and I bought stupid stuff with my money, I bought a 35k car while I was still living in a council flat.”

“Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.”

“I grew up on a council estate.”

“If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.”

“I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.”

“Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.”

“Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.”

“I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.”

“The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad.”

“Everything kind of happened like: 'Bam!' for me. One minute I was living on a council estate somewhere, then I won the Mercurys, then all of a sudden press and people were in my face.”

“I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.'”

“We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.”

“Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.”

“When I was eight or nine, we had a goal in the back yard of our council flat. We used to flip it over the back fence and take it out onto the estate. Everyone would come out and we'd play for hours, there were cars screeching to a halt when the ball went on the road.”

“When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help.”

“If George Osborne wants to end 'unfairness' then he shouldn't scrap a grant that enables every young person to have the same opportunity to go to a top university - whether they grew up on a country estate or a council estate.”

“India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.”

“I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the age of 22.”

“I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.”