Wangari Maathai Quotes

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Wangari Maathai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeDeathProblemLife And Death

Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.

Joe Klein

HistoryThinkThroughCommonCause

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

Andrew Lansley

HealthBureaucracyWillEmpowerWell

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'

Jeff Ament

FriendSchoolCollegeMeGuitar

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

John the Apostle

LifeLoveFriendsDownGreaterThan

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

TimeTogetherGoodbyeSayingMean

I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.

Mike Pence

ChristianConservativeRepublican

I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

Martina Navratilova

CuriousMeWorldRebelAlwaysBeen

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Michael Mandelbaum

AssumptionsWrongMisleadingUseful

The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up.

Jonathan Brownlee

SportsTrainingWeatherInteresting

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

Christopher Lee

OpinionBondThinkUpScreenEver

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Annie Lennox

MusicMyselfPeoplePowerfulEmotion

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare

NatureTimeStrangeHerFramedHath

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