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Sierra Quotes by Ishmael Beah
- The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects.…
- In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came…
- I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids…
- Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the…
- I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At…
- I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives…
More Sierra Quotes
- I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make… — David Foreman
- I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature.… — Nolan Gould
- When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak? — Rush Limbaugh
- The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and… — Ed Royce
- There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer. — Denis Hayes
- I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and… — Galen
- From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women… — Mariella Frostrup
- Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the… — Paul Watson
- The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury… — Fred Allen
- The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set… — Jim Fergus
- There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the… — Alex Steffen
- He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and… — Robert Underwood Johnson