Lisa Ling Quotes

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

We've got to stop thinking everybody who is Muslim is a terrorist.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

I had a planned C-section and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.

My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Our time on Earth is so random.

I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

There's a huge piece of humanity that's missing - a huge piece - and our [American] culture is infant, comparatively speaking, to these folks who have been around for thousands of years.

I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.