"If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Children Quotes #Animal Quotes #Our World Quotes

“The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.”
“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.”
“Does this boat go to Europe, France?”
“Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.”
“I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?”

Source : Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
“Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.”
“We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.”

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