Africa Quotes - page 27

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS. (Barton Gellman)
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. View quote
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be. View quote
Chris Froome
About President Bush's stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from AIDS. So to just throw a bunch of condoms over to Africa and say, here, we're helping you with AIDS, is just going to further the spread of AIDS over there. View quote
Christine O'Donnell
I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast. View quote
Candice Swanepoel
I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America. View quote
Colin Quinn
Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria. View quote
Carol Bellamy
I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity. View quote
Cat Cora
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend. View quote
Dianna Agron
I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa. View quote
Dianna Agron
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. (Djimon Hounsou)
I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah. View quote
Dominic Monaghan
I did do an American pilot, but it wasnt shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called The Philanthropist, and it was for NBC. View quote
Dominique McElligott
But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures. View quote
Donald Johanson
I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa? View quote
Dylan Lauren
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market. View quote
Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for. View quote
Emmanuel Jal
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. View quote
Emmanuel Jal
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe. View quote
Eskinder Nega
I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close! View quote
Estelle
The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal. (Ethan Zuckerman)
You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist. View quote
Euvin Naidoo
If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives. View quote
Ed Royce
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims. View quote
Fatou Bensouda