"The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!"

-- Babatunde Osotimehin

#Lakes Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.”
“I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?”

Source : Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.”
“We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.”
“It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.”
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”
“I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to the men and women of India who will henceforth be a citizen of a republic. I feel deeply thankful for the affection showered on me by all sections of the people, which alone enabled me to hear the burden of an office to the duties and conventions of which I had been an utter stranger.”

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