#got

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#backward #edge #faith #fall #forward

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#be careful #because #blessed #careful #different

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#call #care #god #got #i

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beautiful #called #celebrate #flame #flower

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#haven #nothing #poetry #produce #them

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#got #haven #i #interest #lack

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#got #jokes #same #saying #tedious

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#anything #clearly #could #got #had

You gotta keep the funny intact. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#gotta #intact #keep #you