Donors Quotes - Page 2

• You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

  Stephen Colbert

  Baby, Children, Father

  6 Copy quote

• People who are living donors who give kidneys. You can't give a heart and you can't give a liver, but you can sure give a lung - well, kidneys, anyhow. And that's where the main part of this whole thing is - one out of every eight people, I believe, is going to have some kind of kidney problem during their lifetime.

  Larry Hagman

  Believe, Heart, Eight

  Source: www.pbs.org

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Important, Stranger

  4 Copy quote

• Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.

  George Ade

  Selfish, Drinking, Pride

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

  Kofi Annan

  Mother, Children, Health

  7 Copy quote

• I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today's identical twins.

  Lewis Thomas

  Odds, Cells, People

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the "objective order of things" (on economic laws, the market etc.).

  Herbert Marcuse

  Order, Law, Etc

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.147, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

  Michele Bachmann

  Giving, Political, Pay

  4 Copy quote

• $100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Second Chance, People

  4 Copy quote

• The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.

  Antonio Guterres

  Country, Differences, Korea

  25 Copy quote

• Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Feel Better, Charity

  4 Copy quote

• In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

  Bill Cosby

  Senior, Baby, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

  Ovid

  Regard, Acceptable

  8 Copy quote

• John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That's a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife's purse.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Wife, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him.... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.

  Cliff Asness

  Giving, Political, Abuse

  9 Copy quote

• With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by devising policies to link up to research networks, encourage technology transfer, and build indigenous capabilities through education and collaborative projects.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Technology, Government, Community

  Speech at the Eighth Session of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, May 23, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

  Arpad Busson

  Charity, Treats, Shareholders

  "Can this 'venture philanthropist' save our schools?". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

  Harriet Martineau

  Ignorance, Yield, Government

  Harriet Martineau (1834). “Illustrations of taxation”, p.117

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

  Dennis Miller

  Political, Needs, Definitions

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?

  Alex Tabarrok

  Giving, Choices, Cards

  4 Copy quote

• If we had enough cadaver organs to go around we wouldn't do living donor liver transplants because one is we don't want to put a donor at risk, but the second is that it's a more difficult surgery for the recipient because you're getting a piece of a liver rather than a whole liver. It takes you longer to recover, and it has more complications related to where we sew together the blood vessels and the bile ducts.

  John Roberts

  Blood, Risk, Together

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

  George Muller

  Eye, Order, May

  George Muller (2013). “Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Never Let Me Go, Expected

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.3, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source