Top 1200 Horn Of Africa Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.

I'm keen to get into trophy hunting, no animal in particular, but a big safari in Africa would be great.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.

I wish I could spend more time in Africa. I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here.

Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.

The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

The tour of South Africa is a tough one and if you start thinking like this before it then it is not helpful for anyone.

For me, ever since the South Africa World Cup, the French team is part of the past.

When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

On the back of my car, it says 'The Situation' in letters. It's pretty fun. I work so much, I've been blessed to be busy, but when I have time and I'm able to drive my car, which is a couple times here and there, you know, it says 'Situation' on the back of the car, and people are honking the horn and fist-pumping, and it's really, really cool.

In 2002, the 2000 Engelbrecht Els wine was released in South Africa and received high ratings.

GPS devices are fantastic, but when travelling, especially in the middle of Africa, you must always bring a map as well.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

HIV/AIDS is a very big problem in my country South Africa, so I hope to stand as an advocate for that.

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable.

Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate. You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else.

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.

I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.