Top 1200 West Africa Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

I've got Africa stamped on my chest, and I've outlined Nigeria because that's my bloodline.

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa.

Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

The West to me is where the landscape is.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great without you and you're going to be miserable, or the show is going to be less than great without you and you're going to be miserable." So I had them send a tape of the first episode that I didn't do. I put it in the VCR and I don't think I got 15 seconds in before I leapt up and slammed it off! It felt like I was watching somebody make out with my girlfriend. I've never seen a West Wing episode in seasons five, six or seven.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

I got recognized on the subway in South Africa because of 'Big Bang.'

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

The West is anything but altruistic.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

The West is now closed.

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

The West has political prisoners.

The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

I love the AFC West.

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

I think I have the ability and can play a role in T20 cricket for South Africa.

It's probably the happiest moment for me, to play in a World Cup hosted in Africa.

It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.

A safari is just a magical thing, the winelands in South Africa are beautiful.

I believe that the preaching of the living word of God is something that Africa hungers for.

When I get a chance to play in South Africa, I will try to do well.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.

I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.