Bono Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

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  Inspirational, Mother, Children

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

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  Children, Blind Spots, Age

  Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered 19 May 2004

• I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

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  Movie, Running, Children

• The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

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  Children, Believe, Ideas

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

• When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

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  Children, Eye, Forever

  "Bono turns up the volume for social enterprise" by Joe Jervis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

• Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

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  Children, Pops

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