David Suzuki Quotes
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
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The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.
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As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
