Section: «Quotes»
A quotation (from Latin citare, citatum - to proclaim, to cite) is a verbatim excerpt from some text of someone's speech; the author's words, cited to support it with authority or simply to illustrate one's own expressed thought, or to criticize the quoted thought itself.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background.”— Nelson Mandela
© Juneteenth National Independence Day
“Freedom is never given; it is won.”— A. Philip Randolph
© Juneteenth National Independence Day
“Juneteenth reminds us that freedom has a beginning, but equality is a journey.”— Opal Lee
© Juneteenth National Independence Day
“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, but who walked in and never left.”
© Best Friends Day
“Best friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.”
© Best Friends Day
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes your smile.” — Unknown
© Best Friends Day
“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” — Margaret Mead
© World Environment Day
“The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth.” — Chief Seattle
© World Environment Day
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”— *Anne..
© Parents Day
“Parents are not the people you come from. They are the people you want to be, when you grow up.”— Jodie Picoult
© Parents Day
“When the bees are gone, we will find out just how fragile our world really is.”— Mark Winston (environmental scientist)
© World Bee Day
“No species that is essential to our survival should be allowed to go extinct.”— Sylvia Earle(Often used in context of bees and pollinators)
© World Bee Day
“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”— John Chrysostom
© World Bee Day
“Bees work for man, and man works for bees.”— Karl von Frisch (Nobel Prize–winning ethologist)
© World Bee Day
“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”— Henry David Thoreau
© World Bee Day
“Bees are the ambassadors of pollination, carrying life from flower to flower.”— Dave Goulson (biologist, author of A Sting in the Tale)
© World Bee Day