Top 56 Quotes by Liya Kebede

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.