Orphans In Africa Quotes & Sayings

I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger. — Bruce Wilkinson

I don't know where you get off telling everyone what to do. Did I miss the part where you were crowned top turd? I don't want to play the wicked consort of Eric the Evil. Last time I looked, there wasn't a wicked consort clause in my contract." Donna turned to Eric as he stopped by her side. "I can't believe he thinks he can harass me like he does the rest of the poor wretches who work here." She glared at Holgarth. "Why not rent a wig and you can be the wicked consort?"
As one of the castle's poor wretches, Eric didn't offer anything to the conversation because he was too busy picturing Holgarth in a wig. And from there, he went on to imagine Donna in her wicked consort costume - short on cloth with lots of bare skin showing. Things were looking up. — Nina Bangs

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume. — Johannes Brahms

I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation ... I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa? — Richard Stearns

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. — Honore De Balzac

From the beginning of a Christian's life to the end, the only reason he does not perish is because "the Lord was there." When — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Digital communication is such a problem sometimes. — John Green

Her blue eyes went right through him and reminded him of how thirsty he was from their ocean tint. — Zach Bohannon

I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying. — Emma Thompson

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have. — Ralph Abernathy

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance. — Tertullian

Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research ... if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view. — Chancellor Williams

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom. — Publilius Syrus

Don't take anything personally — Miguel Ruiz