Greta Thunberg on children
Greta Thunberg41 quotes“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”
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Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg The changes needed to safeguard future living conditions for all species won’t come from governments or businesses. It will come from best available science and public opinion. So its unto us. Spread the science.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg Humanity is a civilisation in the middle of the ocean, and we are right now setting fire to our boat”
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg Humans are part of nature, and if we are not doing well, then nature is not doing well, because we are nature.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg This fight hasn’t yet been won. So save your celebrations and congratulations and support women on the frontlines of society worldwide.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis. We children are doing this because we want our hopes and dreams back.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg To protect, restore and rewild the living world is probably the most effective solution we have at hand to fight both the climate- and ecological emergencies.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg Hope doesn’t come from words. Hope only comes from actions.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg In case you’re still wondering why there’s no real change in sight… We can’t solve a crisis unless we treat it like a crisis.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg People keep doing what they do because the vast majority doesn’t have a clue about the consequences of our everyday life. And they don’t know the rapid changes required.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg All we have to do is to wake up and change.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg Sometimes NOT doing things – like just sitting down outside the parliament – speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg The real power belongs to the people.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg We understand that the world is very complex and that change doesn’t happen overnight. But you’ve now had more than three decades of blah blah blah. How many more do you need?
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg I wonder, what will you tell your children was the reason to fail and leave them facing the climate chaos you knowingly brought upon them?
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Together we can change the lives of many children.
Lionel MessiLionel Messi The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Children have their rights denied every single day. We want to build a world where every child is in school and learning, safe from harm and able to fulfill their potential, and we know you do too. It’s time to put children back on the agenda.
Lionel MessiLionel Messi The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
Karl MarxKarl Marx If a mother can kill her own child – what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me – there is nothing between.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela
