Wangari Maathai Quotes

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Wangari Maathai

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• I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Age

• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Everything
  • Canvas
  • Go

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Scared
  • Horror
  • Watch

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Movie

• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Better

• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Confused

• Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Community
  • Heaven
  • Step

• When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Best
  • Speak
  • Celebrity

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Life
  • Society
  • Free

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Oh some I know! I have embalmed the days,Even the sacred moments when we played,All innocent of passion, uncorrupt,At noon and evening in the flame-heart’s shade.

  

  Claude McKay
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Moments

• Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

  

  Alexandra Kosteniuk
  • Hope
  • Popular
  • Chess

• Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

  

  David D. Burns
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Suffering

• God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

  

  John Muir
  • God
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Life
  • God
  • Spirit