Wangari Maathai Quotes

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Wangari Maathai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CorruptionYouBadSoilBecomeSaw

I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!

Jessica Biel

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When you have an election campaign,it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.

Andrew Lansley

SimpleYouElectionSomethingRelate

We're both big Glen Campbell fans - it's one of the things that united us in eternal love.

Megan Mullally

LoveThingsFansBigUnitedUs

Better not to exist than live basely.

Sophocles

LiveBetterExistThan

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.

Tony Bennett

SingingWantProveTryWellSing

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Robert Fitzgerald

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Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

Mike Quigley

WomenChildrenSmartChooseRight

You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you.

Joy Harjo

LoveAppreciateYouLookFindRun

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Dennis Potter

ChildrenYesLittleCruelCourse

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Desiderius Erasmus

LivePeopleWorldFaceRealityTurn

I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things.

Piyush Goyal

New ThingsI AmLearnStudentNew

While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

Pratibha Patil

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