Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we become donors we save people's lives. It's that immediate. It's a cure.

Until donors are happy, they're not going to be too inclined to resource the operation.

Robert Montgomery

This procedure has the potential of increasing the number of living donor transplant operations by one third to one half.

Many Kenyans ... are already living in the edge and unless donors respond immediately, we fear for the worst.

Leila Janah

Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.

One organ and tissue donor can save up to seven lives and enhance the lives of up to 75 others.

What we need from donors is that the time between pledge and disbursement should be one hour.

I extend my sincere gratitude to all donors and their families for the hope they provide others.

Cat Osterman

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.'

Cliff Stearns

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

What donors find useful is to provide resources to try to guide the main work of these organizations so they go as far upstream as they can when the projects are being prepared to ensure the projects acknowledge their development priorities.

We are facing the real prospect in two months from now of another catastrophe which can be averted with the right kind of donor assistance.

When they leave the program, when they turn 18, The Haven will match up to $1,000 of whatever they save. Then, at the end of 12 months of the Turning Point program with Turtle Nest, whatever they've been able to save during that 12-month period, our donors will match up to $2,500.

Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy.

Giving for the tsunami was literally off the charts. There may be an issue of donor fatigue, it's too early to tell, but it looks like giving for the Pakistan earthquake is more typical of the historical response by U.S. donors to international emergencies.

Field turf is the thing of the future. We were fortunate enough to have the donors to make it possible. It's supposed to pay for itself in six to seven years. It drains eight inches of water an hour. If we have that much rain, we won't be playing anyway.

Our goal is to raise $35,000 because we have a donor who will match that amount.

We need the generosity of donors to continue, especially until the winter is over to make sure people make it through the winter alive.

Mike Rogers

We never send out e-mails to people for aid, ... We only send a physical letter to (past) donors once a year.

Organ donors are the real heroes. I'm here today because of one. I'm forever grateful, forever humbled by that.

Robert Montgomery

With this innovation, I can tell any patient who has a live donor and is medically eligible that they can be transplanted with a high likelihood of success.

We expect a lot from tomorrow's donor conference. We hope to see the same response to Pakistan as to the tsunami, but we are far from there because the financing is far from adequate.

We find a kidney from a living donor tends to do better than a kidney from a cadaver donor, even if the cadaver is a perfect match.

Most of the mail is for donors and volunteers.

Larry Sabato

Rendell is not just another governor. He's already been a national figure. He has been (Democratic National Committee) chairman, and he knows the movers and shakers and donors in all 50 states.

Our donors are the key to maintaining our supplies. It's always great to do something to help someone else by donating blood, but it's also nice to receive a little something for the effort. That's why we have the extra incentives. While you can't repay someone for the gift of life, this is our way of saying 'thank you' for giving to someone else.

A lot of donors who were holding back are now going to feel free to give,

It was tough. She was the type of person that made the most of it. She was the type of person who didn't like to talk to anybody, but knew she had obligations to do so to promote the donor program.

The standard for rejecting money is that the donor has risen to enough prominence that holding on to the money will hurt you at the polls. It's a very pragmatic, political standard.

We're paying for that through our own donor base, through volunteers and grants.

We will urge that donors be prepared to go the distance.

Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

Donors are gone, and we are reliant on the generosity of outsiders.