"As a small child in England, I had……" — Jane Goodall
"As 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."
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Jane Goodall
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138 Quotes by Jane Goodall
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers…
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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will…
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Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we…
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I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
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I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with…
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It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of…
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I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
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I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She…
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Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have…
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They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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