Gloria Reuben quotes

“I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.”
-- Gloria Reuben

Source : "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

#Country Quotes #Issues Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.”
-- Gloria Reuben

Source : "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.

#Weather Quotes #Climate Quotes #Pollution Quotes

“And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!”
-- Gloria Reuben

#Acting Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.”
-- Gloria Reuben

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#Notebook Quotes #Uplifting Quotes #Home Quotes

“It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.”
-- Gloria Reuben

Source : "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #Order Quotes

“The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.”
-- Gloria Reuben

#Ecosystems Quotes #Soul Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills.”
-- Gloria Reuben

Source : "A Bus Ride for Clean Energy" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

#Struggle Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Offering Quotes

“Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.”
-- Gloria Reuben

Source : "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

#Air Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.”
-- Gloria Reuben

Source : "A Louisiana Mother’s Day Wish" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

#Children Quotes #Years Quotes #Sound Quotes

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”

“As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.”

“The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.”

“[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.”

“Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”

“I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.”

Source : "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.