Dr Wangari Maathai Quotes & Sayings

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly. — Thomas Frank

Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop?
Answer: That is bird poop, too. — Kurt Vonnegut

Hope carries happiness in its basket of flowers. It can die as fast as fresh flowers do. — Balroop Singh

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. — Mike Huckabee

So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
The white cup shrivels round the golden heart. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. — John Green

The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. — Douglas William Jerrold

What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up. — Ruth Reichl

Know the Power that is Peace. — Black Elk

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity. — Thomas Sowell

The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture. — Hasan Minhaj

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect. — Tracey Emin