Top 134 Sudan Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei. The misperception arose because when the peace agreement was signed in 2005, Abyei accounted for a quarter of Sudan's oil production. Since then, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague defined major oil fields to lie outside Abyei. They're in the north now, not even up for grabs, and they account for one percent of the oil in Sudan. The idea that it's "oil-rich Abyei" is out of date.

Working hard - that's South Sudan. We're tall, dark skinned, beautiful - I'm always proud of that.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people.

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.

President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.

When Qadhafi was in Libya, he was the major supporter of rebel groups in Sudan. So when the revolution came to Libya, we supported it.

We encourage the international community to redouble its efforts to support social and economic development in South Sudan for the benefit of the citizens of the new country.

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

Men from my tribe in Sudan - the Dinka tribe - are very tall, so you could say I was born to play basketball.

It's a small world when you're from South Sudan.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

The south really wants Abyei; they have a core constituency who reside in the area who believe that Abyei belongs to the south. There are a number of those sons of Abyei in high positions of government in South Sudan, so it's pretty hard for South Sudan to just walk away.

I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

I fought for years in South Sudan for the unity of Sudan. I was a commander in the fields, fighting for the unity of Sudan.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

I'm from South Sudan, that is where my heart will always be.

Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

I only lived in Sudan until I was four years, so I cannot really relate to that. It is just a different lifestyle.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

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

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

In Sudan, we have been targeted by western countries because we have rejected their hegemony on Sudan and turned their companies away that were only interested in oil.

Being from the Sudan, there is a lot of stuff going on in Sudan, so I try to do a lot there with my foundation. That's my way of giving back.

My own country, Slovakia, has been there for South Sudan and its people. We made South Sudan a priority country of our official development assistance and humanitarian aid.

I know that, me being from Sudan and London, it's a big honour to have even made it to the NBA.

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

South Sudan is the youngest nation on the planet.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

Having seen what I've seen in South Sudan, there's no way I can't talk about it.

I try not to cover Sudan from afar. I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts. Unsurprisingly people in Sudan don't feel the same way.

I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.