Maathai Memoir Quotes & Sayings

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter. — Robert Harris

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy. — Xavi

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Though things change, the future's still inside of me. — Tupac Shakur

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician — Poul Henningsen

No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. — Audre Lorde

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town. — Jane Bryant Quinn

I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship. — Jason Dolley