Betty Churcher famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.
-- Betty Churcher -
I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.
-- Betty Churcher
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
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I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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I want in all cases to do right.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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