Wangari Maathai Quotes

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenWaterFoodWalkEnvironmental

Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.

Anders Holm

JobYouActingDownGoOdds

VMWare, as you know, remains a public company, and Secure Works is also a public company. And it's possible in the future that within the group, we could have other public companies.

Michael Dell

FutureYouKnowGroupPossible

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

MeFreeBottleRatherThanFront

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

Michael Tubbs

GovernmentSocietyIllusionOffice

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Michel Foucault

SocietyBehaviorBodyFindWherever

The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.

Jason Day

LifeFamilyThinkGolfWantTwo

New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.

David Shields

TechnologyVisionMeLearnNewWeb

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

William Petersen

FatherMotherProblemBackPlace

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

William Golding

WalkStepMeGrayOverShoulder

I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field trip from Riverside, Calif. to Los Angeles, where we were taken to the L.A. Zoo as well as the Natural History Museum.

Susan Straight

FutureHistorySchoolHusbandMuseum

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

Liane Moriarty

UpTakeComeThenPremise

We're expanding 'Ebony' and 'Jet' on the digital side to attract and maintain a younger audience.

Linda Johnson Rice

DigitalAudienceSideAttractJet

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