Top 26 Ziauddin Yousafzai Quotes
#1. Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in Swat Valley, but Malala's voice was like a crescendo. It spread all around the world. She was the smallest but her voice was the biggest, because she was speaking for herself.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#3. My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
Elena Kagan
#4. Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.
Doreen Valiente
#5. You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#6. Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.
Malala Yousafzai
#7. There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
Laurence J. Peter
#8. Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.
Craig Venter
#9. I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.
Andy Behrman
#10. They'll figure it out if we're not careful. Humans like power - secrets, too.
Deborah Harkness
#11. On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the school going?' And she'd say 'it is so-so, you should change this and this ... ' I trusted her wisdom.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#13. People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#14. She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#16. If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#17. Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#18. When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#19. The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#20. Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#22. Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.
Crazy Legs
#23. On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#24. When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#25. Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
James F. Bell, III
#26. For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing.
The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
Jerry Garcia