"If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?"

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Enele Sopoaga

#Moving Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #Grandchildren Quotes

“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
“The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.”
“We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.”
“Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they were finite; but is that permissible? I think not. Where is it demonstrated that one obtains the differential of an infinite series by taking the differential of each term? Nothing is easier than to give instances where this is not so.”
“He has the players too happy.”
“Women are not for using. Women are for loving.”

Source : Dr. Kevin Leman (2006). “Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle”, p.226, Baker Books
“The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.”
“As many serve the Virgin as serve God.”

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