Africa Quotes - page 31

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. (Harry Oppenheimer)
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon. View quote
James Vanderbilt
'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence. View quote
Joanna Scott
My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to me. She is kind, smart, brave, and independent. After graduating number one in her medical school class at a time when it was extremely rare for women to attend medical school, she worked with the World Health Organization in North Africa to eradicate tuberculosis. View quote
Kelsey Chow
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not. View quote
Martha McSally
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar. View quote
Mary McFadden
I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this. View quote
Mary Steenburgen
I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?' View quote
Matt Roper
They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people. View quote
Matthew Modine
I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa. View quote
Mem Fox
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door. (Mem Fox)
Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile. View quote
Michael Sata
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view. View quote
Mo Ibrahim
Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news. View quote
Mo Ibrahim
The way forward for Africa is investment. View quote
Mo Ibrahim
The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. View quote
Mo Ibrahim
The mobile industry changed Africa. View quote
Mo Ibrahim
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. View quote
Neil MacGregor
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond. View quote
Nicolas Berggruen
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot. View quote
Nigel Dennis
To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. (Oscar Pistorius)
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent. View quote
Ozwald Boateng
In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness. View quote
Peter Abrahams
For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost. View quote
Peter Abrahams
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general. View quote
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