Quotes About Landmines

#1. Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

Auliq Ice

#2. Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#3. Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.

Jody Williams

#4. History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

A. N. Wilson

#5. Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Jody Williams

#6. The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

Desmond Tutu

#7. The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Ban Ki-moon

#8. Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Kevin O'Leary

#9. Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.

Jody Williams

#10. If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, ( ... ). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

#11. The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

Princess Diana

#12. I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.

Jackie Chan

#13. The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#14. It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace

Danny Glover

#15. I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

Joanna Lumley

#16. Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.

Jody Williams

#17. Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

J. L. B. Smith

#18. One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine
of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized
that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.

Gary Rohrmayer

#19. Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

Ban Ki-moon

#20. At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life's many losses buried in those sands.

Thomas H. Cook

#21. Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.

Tim O'Brien

#22. It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.

Angelina Jolie

#23. Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

Jackie Chan

#24. It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

Twiggy

#25. But after a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines.

Victoria Schwab

#26. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

Ban Ki-moon

#27. Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

Heather Mills

#28. Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

Quincy Jones

#29. I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time

Kendrick Lamar

#30. Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.

Kofi Annan

#31. I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.

Angelina Jolie