Quotes About Unicef

#1. Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.

Ralph Fiennes

#2. When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

Brandy Norwood

#3. UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

Clay Aiken

#4. I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.

Laurence Fishburne

#5. I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

Alyssa Milano

#6. In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.

Winona Ryder

#7. When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

Nana Mouskouri

#8. I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

Ellen Pompeo

#9. Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.

Ralph Fiennes

#10. I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

Jenna Bush

#11. When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening.

Misha Collins

#12. I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

Roger Moore

#13. I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.

Danny Glover

#14. For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

Carol Bellamy

#15. My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

Audrey Hepburn

#16. UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

Jane Curtin

#17. 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

#18. I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

Audrey Hepburn

#19. [On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

Audrey Hepburn

#20. The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

Danielle Panabaker

#21. Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential ...

Susan Sarandon

#22. Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

Carol Bellamy

#23. I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.

James Nesbitt

#24. In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.

Carol Bellamy

#25. I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Liam Neeson

#26. UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

Carol Bellamy

#27. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

Danny Kaye

#28. I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

Ewan McGregor

#29. The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children

Liam Neeson

#30. I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

Emo Philips

#31. Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

Ishmael Beah

#32. I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted.

Andy Murray

#33. UNICEF is such a special organization, and to spread the word just makes me so happy.

Charlotte Sullivan

#34. I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.

Orlando Bloom

#35. I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.

Lucy Liu

#36. In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

Carol Bellamy

#37. I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

James Nesbitt

#38. Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Anatoly Karpov

#39. Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Roger Moore

#40. UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.

Ewan McGregor

#41. Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Peter Singer

#42. Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

Roger Moore

#43. My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#44. I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Audrey Hepburn

#45. I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.

India.Arie

#46. The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

P. J. O'Rourke

#47. People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

Audrey Hepburn

#48. There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to help improve the lives and well-being of children everywhere.

Tea Leoni

#49. UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

Nana Mouskouri

#50. I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man.

Janet Schulman

#51. We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they look like they've been roaming the roads of Guinea since the dawn of time. And no doubt they will continue to long after we're gone.

Tom Hiddleston

#52. I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

Tom Hiddleston