Quotes About Unesco

#1. I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

Joyce Giraud

#2. UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

#3. Another reason why I am always close to the people, because the communication is very important. When I stopped to play soccer I continued to ... I continued to work with UNICEF. I did a lot of work with UNESCO. We did a lot of charity programme and games.

Pele

#4. I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Joyce Giraud

#5. Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.'.

Julian Huxley

#6. I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

Joyce Giraud

#7. The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Pele

#8. I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

Valentina Tereshkova

#9. It's natural to worry about physical stuff like weaponry and resources. What we should really worry about is psychological stuff like ideologies and norms. As the UNESCO slogan puts it, "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

John Brockman

#10. A whole language, according to UNESCO, disappears on average every two weeks.

Sebastian Smee

#11. I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Joshua Lederberg

#12. For all practical purposes "race" is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.

UNESCO

#13. When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Franz Schubert

#14. While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

Lee De Forest

#15. What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

#16. A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

John Steinbeck

#18. Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

Norbert Wiener

#19. Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Steve Tisch

#20. In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.

Wentworth Miller

#21. The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

Gillian Sorensen

#22. Her life wasn't supposed to be like this. It was empty. She

Ken Kupstis

#23. We need to build a wall ... I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall.

Donald Trump

#24. Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

John Hewson