Wangari Maathai Quotes

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Wangari Maathai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: kenyan
  • Birth: April 1, 1940

Topics

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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

John McCain

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul

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But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

John Shadegg

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If it is a fantasy fiction, and you want to portray a story of a vampire, you have to keep the essence of the story same. But if you have to have five episodes a week, where do we get so much content from?

Rithvik Dhanjani

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You've got to build a career and a practice.

Robin Day

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I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

Lloyd Dorfman

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I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

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Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

Lisa Ling

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It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them.

Cobi Jones

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I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

Brenda Blethyn

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We live in a strange bubble.

Brian Molko

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I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

Allan Savory

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