Quotes with child-nations

Quotes 481 till 500 of 620.

  • Ralph Bunche The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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  • Anna Lindh The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
    Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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  • John Foster Dulles The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate... Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Patricia Clifford The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
    Patricia Clifford
    American film producer
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  • Arthur Henderson The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • James Fenton The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Butler Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Will Rogers There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bruce Forsyth There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • James Baldwin There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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