Quotes on Population

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

Author: Robert Atkins

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

Author: Joe Baca

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

Author: Nuno Bettencourt

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Author: Carol Braun

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

Author: William Bryan

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Author: James Cameron

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

Author: Henry Carey

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

Author: Silvia Cartwright

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

Author: Emanuel Celler

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Author: Emanuel Celler

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Author: Angela Davis

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

Author: Jared Diamond

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Author: Havelock Ellis

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

Author: Peter Grant

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Author: Garrett Hardin

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

Author: Ruben Hinojosa

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Author: Walter Kohn

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

Author: Lillie Langtry

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Author: Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

Author: Thomas Malthus

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

Author: Ernst Mayr

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

Author: Gary Miller

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

Author: Helen Reddy

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.

Author: Dave Reichert

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

Author: Jeri Ryan

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

Author: William Weld