Wangari Maathai Quotes

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Wangari Maathai

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• I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Internet
  • Passwords

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Sky

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Proud
  • Brand
  • British

• Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Alone

• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Brave

• I am a Westerner of Westerners!

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Westerner

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Thought
  • Surprised
  • Guess

• The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

  

  Questlove
  • Team
  • Support
  • Football

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • God
  • Today
  • Ignorance

• I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Value

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Standard

• Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Trees

• I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Party
  • Myself

• What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Light
  • Fire

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Will
  • Trees
  • Little Things