Sirleaf Ellen Quotes & Sayings

These were highly civil comments for crying out loud. I mean, people are going nuts. USA Today, the Politico. And some people were suggesting that my comments were below the belt. Well, take a look at some pictures. Given where she wears her belts. I mean, she wears them high up there around the bust line. Isn't just about everything about her below the belt when you look at the fashion sense she has? — Rush Limbaugh

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The boy's eyes went to him, and a shock passed through Magnus. They were not Will's eyes, the eyes Magnus remembered being as blue as a night sky in Hell, eyes Magnus has seen both despairing and tender.
This boy has shining golden eyes, like crystal glass filled brimful with crisp white wine and held up to catch the light of a blazing sun. If his skin was luminous, his eyes were radiant. Magnus could not imagine these eyes as tender. The boy was very, very lovely, but his was a beauty like that of Helen of Troy might have had once, disaster written in every line. The light of his beauty made Magnus think of cities burning. — Cassandra Clare

I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody! — Deyth Banger

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

If your dreams don't scare you, its because they are not big enough.- Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Of all the races in Africa there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest, the somalis" Gerald Hanley Irish Writter and soldier in Brittish Army. — Gerald Hanley

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The borders of Israel and an independent Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps. Each state needs secure and recognized borders, and there must be robust provisions that safeguard Israel's security. — Denis McDonough

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays. — John Gay

Future generations will judge us
not by what we say, but what we do. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections. — George Weah

Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine. — Lindsay Fox

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics. — Cynthia Kenyon

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism. — Grover Norquist

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked. — Joshua Bloch

All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I've been a victor of circumstance. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation.
My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

All stories are the sin of their weaver. — Miyuki Miyabe

If your dreams do not scare you they aren't big enough — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect. — Allan Sandage