Ban Ki-moon Quotes

The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural development, enhance food security and maintain and accelerate momentum towards the MDGs.

Ban Ki-moon

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• Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Food
  • Single
  • Environmental

• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Community
  • Sports

• I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • World
  • Community
  • Best

• When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Home
  • Food
  • Rather

• The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Community
  • Will

• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Food
  • Water

• My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Food
  • Kitchen

• When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • Career
  • Community

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Think
  • Community
  • Gay

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Follow

• I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • American
  • Community
  • White

• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Long
  • Together
  • Food

• Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Family
  • Food

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits.

  

  Anthony Pratt
  • Food

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

  

  David Bromstad
  • Black
  • Small
  • Space

• A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Family
  • Everyday

• The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

  

  Russell Banks
  • House
  • Stills
  • Grew

• The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural development, enhance food security and maintain and accelerate momentum towards the MDGs.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Food
  • Community
  • Needs