A Quote by Liya Kebede

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.' — © Liya Kebede
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is so much hope for Africa now that South Africa has got its house in order.
When I stayed with my father in Africa, I was always covered from head to foot in a shirt buttoned to the neck and khaki trousers. But I often got burnt feet, because I wore sandals, which might explain the cancer on my foot.
The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.
I'm out to prove that a guy 55 years old, with one foot in the grave, can play with the best woman in the world and maybe beat her. It'll be a big boost for men's superiority.
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
I've got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.
I mean, out of every five shows we do, there's somebody saying Hank Sr.'s rolling around in his grave.
I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.
When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!
As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.
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