Graca Machel Quotes

#1. There was nothing I could do.
She's a riptide.
I'm just a man without oars.

Karina Halle

#2. In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

Graca Machel

#3. I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

L.K. Elliott

#4. Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Rumi

#5. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

Ray Bradbury

#6. They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

Mel Gibson

#7. Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.

Graca Machel

#8. Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides; Who covers faults, at last shame them derides.

William Shakespeare

#9. We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

Graca Machel

#10. There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Ben Carson

#11. My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

Brooklyn Decker

#12. The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

Graca Machel

#13. Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?

Aberjhani

#14. And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.

Liz Thebart

#15. I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit.

Muriel Fox

#18. I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

Ethan Hawke