Top 166 Ethiopia Quotes & Sayings

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

Ethiopia has a robust response, designing development policies with a view to mitigating the impact of climate change. I am proud to say that in the fifth edition of the Global Green Economy Index released in September 2016, Ethiopia is ranked 14 globally in terms of climate change performance.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.

The State of Israel failed in absorbing the Jews from Ethiopia.

I had always believed that standing with Ethiopia's most vulnerable was simply the right thing to do.

The United States and Ethiopia have years of strong partnership, based on a recognition that we need each other.

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

There were no ugly people in Ethiopia

It has always been the wish of Bob Marley to return to Ethiopia and become a Rastafarian.

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

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.

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.

As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

Eritrea is hellbent on destabilising Ethiopia. It does not care who it sleeps with.

I was a young soldier when war broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

I'm away about six months of the year, competing here in the U.K. or in training camps in Arizona, Ethiopia, the Pyrenees.

Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

Because of the friendship and common interests our two nations share, the U.S. has a stake in Ethiopia's prosperity, stability and success.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

It was a dream of Bob Marley and it is a dream of the family to bury him in Ethiopia.

Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

What I want people to know about Ethiopia is that it is a country of nations and nationalities. Oromos are the majority. But Oromos have been so good to Ethiopia but have been marginalized for years.

My dad almost died as a child from water-borne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well in Ethiopia and I thought, I have too many friends and great people in my life that would be concerned with this subject of clean water.

I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

Ethiopia is beautiful. The people are so positive.

My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.

Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I already have an ashtray.

I spent time living in Ethiopia, learning about the cultural importance of coffee and its roots in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

I believed peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea was within reach.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.