Quotes from Shirley Temple

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.