Wangari Maathai Quotes

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Wangari Maathai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenWorldGenerationEnvironment

I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Once I accumulated a bunch of sounds and learned how to use Logic, I was like, 'Wait a second, I don't need to work with any producers. I can do this on my own.'

Amber Mark

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After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

Stephen Stills

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Why do you not practice what you preach.

St. Jerome

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I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

Stevie Wonder

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I just work hard at everything I do. If there's something I need to learn, I stick to it, I learn it and put everything I have toward it.

Stipe Miocic

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You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

Steve Scalise

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I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.

Trent Reznor

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A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.

Michelle Dean

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And they do those jobs not because they want to take away anything from America, but because they want to give their skills, their sweat, their labor, for a better life and to help build a better America, just as those who came before them.

Luis Gutierrez

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I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.

Conor McGregor

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When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Philippe Petit

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