Quotes About Impact

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.