Unicefs First Ambassador Quotes & Sayings

No one is born poor. People choose to become and remain poor. No one became wealthy from begging. Only people who have set limits on themselves do that. No one became wealthy from living off handouts. This is not the will of God for anyone. No one became wealthy from foraging in people's bins. Only rats do that. You can excel and make money where you are without running helter skelter in search of green pastures. — Uyoyou C. Charles-Iyoha

At the cross, Jesus paid the penalty we should have paid, by enduring the wrath of God we should have endured. And this required him to do something unprecedented. It required him to provide the ultimate level of obedience - one that we'll never be asked to emulate. It required him to give up his relationship with the Father so that we could have one instead. The very thought of being torn away from the Father caused him to sweat great drops of blood (Luke 22:44). And at the crescendo of his obedience, he screamed, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34). — Anonymous

The [sun and moon] provide us with different-appearing worlds, which in turn form our two different minds; the one that reasons and the one that dreams. — Christine Valters Paintner

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics. — Sam Harris

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit. — Catherynne M Valente

To be associated with a film that just flat-out makes people happy is such a blessing and a tremendous privilege, and I'll always be grateful for it. People's eyes light up when they talk about it. I've been in Asia, Africa, Europe and even Bhutan; people know the movie there. It's just an amazing thing. — Michael J. Fox

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind. — Wayne Coyne

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got. — Alexandra Bracken

There is no more terrifying experience for a Christian than to discover he has suddenly become a rationalist. — Halldor Laxness

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life. — Jack Nicholson

This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Don't say you're easy on me. You're about as easy as a nuclear war. — Duran Duran