Top 33 Waris Dirie Quotes

#1. But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

David Shuster

Waris Dirie Quotes #13966
#2. FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #23324
#3. I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #124070
#4. Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #143517
#5. I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #397534
#6. Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #436098
#7. Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

James Rosenquist

Waris Dirie Quotes #459915
#8. Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

Lionel Shriver

Waris Dirie Quotes #569998
#9. Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #571064
#10. I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #686934
#11. Because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true!

Well ... isn't it?

Stephen Schwartz

Waris Dirie Quotes #725776
#12. The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Jean Cocteau

Waris Dirie Quotes #788504
#13. So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. I'm feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling me, 'hold your ground. You'll never learn a thing if you bail out now.

Missy Higgins

Waris Dirie Quotes #840260
#14. I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

Flea

Waris Dirie Quotes #916306
#15. Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #938016
#16. It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.

Benazir Bhutto

Waris Dirie Quotes #968543
#17. Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #970088
#18. I belong nowhere and to no one.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1023053
#19. I came for you. I love you, Beck. I needed you to follow your dreams so that I could follow mine alongside you.

R.S. Grey

Waris Dirie Quotes #1035741
#20. Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1063174
#21. As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

Asif Kapadia

Waris Dirie Quotes #1095590
#22. Women's loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1115453
#23. My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1137644
#24. I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1213553
#25. All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

Anna C. Brackett

Waris Dirie Quotes #1240318
#26. I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1283901
#27. Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1345944
#28. There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

Stefan Zweig

Waris Dirie Quotes #1383243
#29. Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.

Mike Ditka

Waris Dirie Quotes #1477757
#30. Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1587862
#31. I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know.

Alice Hoffman

Waris Dirie Quotes #1612549
#32. Don't do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1780457
#33. I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie Quotes #1877963

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top