Sylvia Mathews Burwell Quotes

Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 23, 1965

Topics

ChangeListeningWorldSmallAction

My mom is a typical mother.

Melissa Rivers

MotherMomTypical

What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.

Amanda Foreman

MarriageArtSimpleArchitecture

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Tony Snow

PoliticsPeopleKnowGivePlutoRip

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy

LifeBeautyGodChildrenMyself

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Roseanne Barr

MarriageMyselfGovernmentHusband

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

Mike Gordon

PurposeThinkYouPlayRadioWell

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

ChildrenWrinklesAlwaysPains

I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

Brandon Lee

WorkLawYouMoviesHappenDramatic

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Britt Ekland

ManHusbandFindExistIdealEasier

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

Ava DuVernay

LifeWorkReflectionValuePeople

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

Asdrubal Cabrera

DayEvery DayReadyWantTryLeave

People ask, 'Why is it called 5 Seconds of Summer when there's four of you?'

Ashton Irwin

PeopleYouSummerWhyAskFour

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