Bissessar Quotes

#1. As I looked around the room at all these people-my family-excitement thrummed through me. Yes, this might go down in history as the stupidest thing I'd ever done, but it felt so good to have a plan that I didn't care if it was a bad one.

Rachel Hawkins

#2. We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people ... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#3. Tenacity is when you follow your heart - when the whole world is screaming to get back into your head

Sonia Choquette

#4. When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#5. I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.

Kirk Hammett

#6. If you don't send me away from Stony Cross by tomorrow morning, I'll take it as a personal invitation to your bed.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#8. Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#9. As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#10. It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

Ed Smith

#11. There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#12. But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Bono

#13. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#14. One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card ... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#15. Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#16. Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#17. The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way?

Brian D. McLaren

#18. Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

Bryant McGill

#19. Eternity would mean nothing without you. For no power on this earth would I trade my Elena.

Nalini Singh

#20. In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he'd kept for himself.

Ali Smith

#21. Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#22. Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#23. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar