Chico Mendes (Francisco Alves Mendes Filho) Quotes

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

Chico Mendes

• Fighting
• Environment
• Humanity
• Tree
• Rain
• Realizing
• Amazon

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Think
  • Humor

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Thought

• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Money
  • Class
  • Far

• Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Health
  • Care
  • Need

• Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their loved ones. Family meant something. Spouses meant something.

  

  Derrick Grayson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Up
  • Done
  • Morning

• I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

  

  Patty Loveless
  • Music

• I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future.

  

  David Ige
  • Future

• Anybody can act good to be around when they are doing really well.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Good

• One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

  

  Katherine Ryan

• The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

  

  Ken Kesey

• There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Writing

• My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • God
  • America
  • Father

• It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

  

  David Walliams
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Tea

• In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

  

  Ernest L. Boyer
  • Education
  • Teaching
  • Excellence

• The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Humanity
  • Unfortunate

• The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.

  

  Wes Craven
  • People
  • Stories
  • Audience

• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Humanity
  • Written
  • Ready

• True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • True
  • Democracy
  • Color

• At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

  

  Chico Mendes
  • Fighting
  • Environment
  • Humanity