Oxfam's Quotes

#1. When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.

Colin Firth

#2. When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.

Martin Parr

#3. It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Lincoln Steffens

#4. My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.

Joy Bryant

#5. Giving up drinking for life is easy.
I've done it loads of times.

Peter James West

#6. I had a stroke in 1985 ... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

Hugh Hefner

#7. If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids - without exception - were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away.

Kim Harrison

#8. If Joe thought that simple and logical was going to work, he was in for a world of hurt living for two months with three females.

Kristen Ashley

#9. Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.

Scarlett Johansson

#10. I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

William Shatner

#11. Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Phillips Brooks

#12. As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.

Jose Andres

#13. She felt sorry for him. A hippie chick who looked like she bought her clothes at Oxfam and a puff of wind could blow her over?

Amy Andrews

#14. I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

Damon Albarn

#15. Always schedule your comeback.

Brooke Bida

#16. The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Brian Tracy

#17. A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria.

Michelle Dockery

#18. I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.

Kate Moss

#19. I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#20. Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

Bruce C. Hafen

#21. Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world.

Joy Bryant

#22. I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Toby Young

#23. To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

Giada De Laurentiis

#24. If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

J.G. Ballard

#25. The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.

Joanna Lumley

#26. I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

Robert Winston

#27. The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

Boris Pasternak

#28. Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.

Twiggy

#29. My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#30. Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo

Andrew Bleiman

#31. Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

Lily Donaldson