Ambassadors Quotes - Page 9

• The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Country, World Issues, Roles

  "Pope Francis Applauded For Message On Poverty At U.N". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

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• Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Unique, Opportunity

  Source: espn.go.com

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• When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly.

  Lee Greenwood

  Cities, Theatre, United States

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• I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Rome, Atheism

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• Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.44

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• All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

  John Piper

  Army, Sacrifice, Self

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.

  Mark Feehily

  Bullying, Teenager, Thinking

  "Jedward look battered and bruised in anti-bullying campaign". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

  Jackie Chan

  Want, Olympics, United

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• The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.

  Gary Morris

  Children, Hunting, Rights

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• You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

  Indira Gandhi

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Source: sangam.org

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• The Pleiadians reminded me of what my role was here, to be on this planet and to act as an ambassador to the Pleiadians, to bring awareness to people of their existence and to channel through their knowledge and the understanding at this time so we can evolve as a human race.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Race, People, Understanding

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

  Aaron Allston

  Daughter, Fire, Years

  Aaron Allston (2008). “Fury: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.278, Del Rey

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• I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.

  Michael Jackson

  Baby, Sex, Singing

  "Children 'saved me,' Michael Jackson said". "Dateline", www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2009.

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• There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Numbers, Female

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• There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

  Andrew Young

  People, Roles, United States

  "Andrew Young Fast Facts", www.cnn.com. March 4, 2017.

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• Im an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.

  Lesley Nicol

  Dog, Medical, Detection

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• As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the best he could give.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Sports, Fighting, Giving

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• There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.

  Tom Jones

  Integrity, Voice, Sound

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• He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

  William Cowper

  Men, Speech, Mercy

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.141

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• I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars'.

  Daniel Logan

  Stars, War, Conventions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.

  Tamara Mellon

  Fashion, Arena, Recognition

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• McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten.

  John Galliano

  Fashion, Creativity, Unique

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• I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria. and when I was 40, I finally woke up and decided to do something, and that's how the talk show came about.

  Mo Abudu

  Growing Up, Age, Shows

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

  Daley Thompson

  School

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• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Adventure, Superhero

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