Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Josette Sheeran
5 quotes
“A silent tsunami which knows no borders is sweeping the world.”
Josette Sheeran (born 1954) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding world hunger; reported in Graeme Taylor, Evolution's Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World (2008), p. 46.
“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa — amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs — it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world’s most vulnerable people.”
Josette Sheeran (born 1954) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Filling empty bellies is no longer enough" (20 September 2011) at UK Government Department for International Development web site
“With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.”
Josette Sheeran (born 1954) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lancet Volume 371, Issue 9608, Pages 180 - 181, (19 January 2008)
“I am in the hunger business; it is what we do exclusively, 24/7, and I am sorry to tell you that business is booming.”
Josette Sheeran (born 1954) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Addressing the World Food Programme meeting, 21 September 2009
“I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food. Not only that, transforming hunger is an opportunity, but I think we have to change our mindsets. I am so honored to be here with some of the world's top innovators and thinkers. And I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, "No more. No more are we going to accept this." And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.”
Josette Sheeran (born 1954) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ending Hunger Now" TED Talk (July 2011)