Unicef Quotes - Page 2

• UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Government, Needs

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• People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump UNICEF.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Light, Names, People

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• I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

  Jenna Bush

  Latin, Book, Writing

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• UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Done, Made

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• Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Girl, Education, Children

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• For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, School, Law

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• I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

  Emo Philips

  Kids, Giving, Bangs

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Fighting, Iodine, Firsts

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Equality, Health Education

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• It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Jobs, Children, Self

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• When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening.

  Misha Collins

  Couple, Eye, Earthquakes

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• I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

  Danny Glover

  Years, Twelve, Ambassadors

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• [On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I would want to bring a certain kind of unity and awareness to different things. Even in the 80s, I wanted to do something with Unicef, and I wrote a song for Unicef, but I didn't have any means or the celebrity.

  Robert Davi

  Song, Mean, Unity

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• Suppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I morally culpable if I refuse to do so? Am I morally culpable if I choose not to do what I easily can about the fact that 1000 children die every hour from easily preventable disease, according to UNICEF? Or the fact that the government of my own "free and open society" is engaged in monstrous crimes that can easily be mitigated or terminated? Is it even possible to debate these questions?

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Government, Disease

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted.

  Andy Murray

  Support, Important, World

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Parent, Trying

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• When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

  Brandy Norwood

  Girl, Orange, Littles

  ""Brandy named international youth spokesperson for UNICEF". www.mtv.com. July 29, 1999.

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• UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

  Clay Aiken

  Children, Survival, Causes

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• Another reason why I am always close to the people, because the communication is very important. When I stopped to play soccer I continued to... I continued to work with UNICEF. I did a lot of work with UNESCO. We did a lot of charity programme and games.

  Pele

  Soccer, Communication, Games

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Gardening, Want

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

  Ishmael Beah

  Country, Children, War

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• I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.

  India.Arie

  Power, Opportunity, People

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• Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Malaria, Disease

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.

  Liv Tyler

  Kindness, Children, Real

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