Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamEducation forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Alexander PopePolitical language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellI do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. RooseveltAnyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
BonoI aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.
Sunil ChhetriThe first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard ShawI can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.
Frank OceanEach new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas SowellAfrica is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
BonoNo country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson MandelaA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous HuxleyAfrica is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
Matthew McConaugheyHis lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody AllenThey talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel CastroIn order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai LamaNothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CummingsMuch of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
Narendra ModiI started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice WalkerSo you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
BonoLove is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAn economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DiogenesIt is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia WoolfAbility will never catch up with the demand for it.
ConfuciusIn the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam ChomskyIn Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.
Dwayne JohnsonProgress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard ShawWhen I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane GoodallOur diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.
Colin PowellIn the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Alexander HamiltonIt’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
Frank OceanChina has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
Dalai LamaNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWith the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.
Jeff BezosIt may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. LewisWhile the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.
Maya AngelouMost Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.
Jane GoodallTo be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.
Albert CamusAll experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry AdamsThe universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
Nikola TeslaFor Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
Bill GatesIn ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.
Noam ChomskyGenius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George EliotWhen I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Lyndon B. JohnsonGod, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamAs a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
Jane GoodallFor Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRight now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody AllenAfter launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.
Mark ZuckerbergI learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.
Marilyn MonroeConstant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma GandhiGreat countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin DisraeliThe fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
BonoSociety can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund BurkeThe development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl MarxI dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson MandelaThe most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
Richard P. Feynman