Graca Quotes & Sayings

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities. — Graca Machel

I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition. — Gerry Spence

Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true. — Steven D. Levitt

Recent events have shown us that we are a single, interdependent world. But the burden of any world crisis falls most heavily on the developing countries and on their peoples. And everything that we have learnt tells us that it is the children who will be feeling the harshest and the most permanent effects. Can we therefore claim in all earnestness to love our children--the children of the North and the South--if we do not give the most serious attention to preventing a world that has more than enough resources from dividing ever more deeply between rich and poor? — Graca Machel

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common! — Oscar Wilde

The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern. — Graca Machel

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today. — Graca Machel

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour
or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing. — George Eliot

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic. — Graca Machel

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else. — Eva Zeisel

(The needs of rich leftists are that they want to look like they are on the side of the poor, but they also want to keep their money.) — John Pepple