"Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums."

-- Marq de Villiers

#Children Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated
“A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.”
“Reason, you'll always be half-blind.”

Source : Marguerite Porete, Ellen L. Babinsky (1993). “The Mirror of Simple Souls”, p.1, Paulist Press
“I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.”
“I just remember there was one rule: If you've got faults, we expect you to be working on it. And we are here for you. People would welcome each other then. We don't do that anymore. We don't care.”
“The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.”
“The lack of fairness that we have in the richest country in the world is something that hits my district pretty hard. Eighty-three percent free and reduced lunch. We have the fourth-highest Medicaid population per capita in Virginia. There are folks that are just making it, literally day to day. When I'm knocking on doors, I'm reminded constantly of the struggles that people have. And, sometimes, we realized there are so few people that are advocating on their behalf that we want to be a real solid voice for them, and that drives me on a regular basis.”
“There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.”

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