Top 56 Quotes by Liya Kebede

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.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

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.

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.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

I really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!

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

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'