Words matter. These are the best Laurie David Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you go to pick your kids up from school, cars are lined up idling for anywhere from five to 20 minutes. Starting a ‘no idling’ rule in your school carpool lane could have a huge impact.
If you can influence five people, fantastic. If you can influence five hundred people, fantastic. It’s all important.
A bald man driving a hybrid is a very sexy thing.
If you care about the health of the planet, you have to care about the health of its people, and if you really go deeper, it starts with the community of your family.
A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they’re not sitting down at the table, the art of conversation is going to go.
Exercise is essential for good health. But we can’t exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.
If you come to my house for a dinner party, it looks like a Toyota dealership, because every single person I know drives a hybrid now.
My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.
The fact that this is what John McCain is suggesting – more offshore drilling and more nuclear power plants? I don’t think so. Not even close. Not even in the ballpark of what we need.
And by the way, the United States is the biggest cause in global warming pollution. And we’re doing the least about it. I find that personally embarrassing.
I was going to be the president of a television network. That’s where I was going. I was that ambitious.
The health claims on packaging are there because they sell products.
Anytime anyone spoofs anything related to the issue of global warming is good, because to me it’s like, okay, gets the word out.
We are all victims of the marketing that says cooking is hard and takes too long, but that’s simply not true. Scrambled eggs take five minutes to make.
I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.
The show Larry is much more aggressive. The real Larry is very gentle and very sweet and doesn’t like to offend people.
By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.
Family dinner is how we civilize our children. It is how we get them into good habits like drinking water with supper, saying please and thank you, learning how to listen and take turns. It’s how we pass on our family histories.
It’s easy to get good table talk going if you have a little help in the form of questions, games, newspaper articles, books with fun statistics, things like that.
Nobody’s a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.
When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.
Wherever the American diet goes, wherever these foods and drinks go, sickness follows.
Everyone has a right to speak out.
It takes so much courage to get out of a marriage.
I’m not someone who funds buildings. That doesn’t interest me. I’m more interested in programs.
Vote for candidates who care about these issues, and hold these candidates accountable. I don’t care what party; I’m past that point. I care whether they are concerned about the energy security of this country.
Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.
I had to stop following certain friends because I was constantly seeing them tweet about all the parties that I wasn’t invited to! The worst is the Twitpic – people take pictures of themselves at these fun dinners, and you’re not there.
I’m very average. I’m into fresh, yummy family food. I’m into leftovers.
Larry and I didn’t have two nickels together when we got engaged.
My life has been on TV for so long now, I’m used to it.
You can love someone and not be able to live together.
In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.
I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.
They are very different in terms of the solution. Where ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ you really need countries to cooperate and sacrifice and figure out a solution, with ‘Fed Up’ you can leave the theater and you can be empowered that very night by cooking dinner in your very own kitchen.
You don’t necessarily know you’re consuming sugar when you’re using store-bought salad dressing, or store-bought tomato sauce, or healthy granola bars. It’s added to all these foods.
I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it’s not all on my shoulders.
Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.
If you’re doing takeout, try to get the healthiest takeout you can. And just take it out of the plastic, right? Get your grandma’s old china or get a fancy little bowl, and put the takeout in the bowl and light a candle.
School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.
For a guy who spends endless hours on a golf course, it’s best not to have a wife waiting for you at home.
I could never just look at a meal as a time to refuel. For me it’s an opportunity to accomplish something. To connect, to teach, to share values.
As a young mom I was kind of desperate for some happy family moments and I realized that they don’t usually show up all on their own, you have to create them – or at the very least, create an opportunity for them to bloom.
I find it so exciting to grow your own food.
Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.
And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they’re true.
Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything.
When you see that charger in the wall, you have to now say okay that’s, that’s contributing to global-warming pollution, I have to pull that charger out of the wall.
That’s what hurts the environmental movement – holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.
Any time you put people in a room with Bill McDonough, they leave there blown away, their mouths agape. I had a similar feeling when I first met Al Gore.
Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment for a lot of people.
Environmental communicators are too cautious. I throw caution to the wind.
Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.
Small acts by millions of people – imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they’re likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they’re likely to demand that from their leadership.
If you can’t buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, ‘What is the fuel economy of this car?’
