"The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law."

-- Carol Bellamy

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Agreement Quotes

“God is not there just for emergencies.”
“I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.”
“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.”
“Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.”
“I arrived in Tokyo in around '81. Around that time, I visited London for about two months - it was the period just before Malcolm McLaren released his solo album Duck Rock. I'd met him when he came to Japan, so I visited him in London and spent one evening with him and his girlfriend over at his house. He told me, "London is boring right now. You should go to New York." So he called a friend in New York, who I think was an old assistant or someone who helped him record early hip-hop stuff over there.”

Source : Interview with Fraser Cooke, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.
“Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.”

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.306, University Press of Kentucky
“When we talk about magic a lot of people think you use that to pick up girls. So therefore there's this slimy connotation associated with it, like, "Oh hey, pick a card - my number's on it!" So I think I've avoided ever having people think that's what's happening. I try to make magic the treat of the interaction or the treat of the flirt. I've never gone up and tried to do a trick to get a girl's number, only because I feel like that's what people expect and it feels slimy.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.”

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