Against Child Labour Quotes

#1. More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Kailash Satyarthi

#2. You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what's happening on another planet, but not what's going on inside the person next to you.

Graham Spaid

#3. Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Bill Griffith

#4. In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing

Apollonius Of Tyana

#5. In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them ... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them ... '

Brian Eno

#6. Just keep taking chances and having fun.

Garth Brooks

#7. Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

Joan Jett

#8. ... mischief, ... arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.

Karen Swallow Prior

#9. Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

Larry David

#10. Wise men verifies the truth of what they heard, foolish men makes conclusion based on what they heard".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#11. Frankly I was a little surprised at the unfair press coverage you and your partner received. Sometimes I wonder at people who live their safe lives on the sidelines, yet still want to make all the calls.

Janice Cantore

#12. Stay busy and take care of your own business.

Eddy Arnold

#13. Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up."
"These people are full of rumours. They love rumours." Paterson stood watching the bridge. "Their whole life is a rumour.

H.E. Bates

#14. On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education.

Dan Rather

#15. Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

O.J. Simpson

#16. Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Euripides

#17. Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.

Marc Webb