Quote by Desmond Tutu
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you a

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu

Other quotes by Desmond Tutu

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu

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Religion
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Gods love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. – Desmond Tutu

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Religion
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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. – Desmond Tutu

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Education
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – Alex Haley

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I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food. – Angie Stone

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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. – Vivienne Westwood

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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they dont deserve it. It doesnt matter if theyre family or if youve known them forever. If theyre not good for you, theyve got to go. – Gabrielle Union

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Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. – Paulette Bates Alden

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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we havent improved Australias security but created a greater danger at home and abroad. – Bob Hawke

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You can be happy where you are. – Joel Osteen

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