Thus the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

America must be the teacher of democracy not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.