Africa Quotes

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

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.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

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

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

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

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.

The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.

Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.

South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get rid of Apartheid and the struggle to establish democracy.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.

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

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

The matter of people being attracted to other countries is a permanent problem in my view, it doesn't only face South Africa. A whole lot of countries in the world are faced with this problem.

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

Terrorism has essentially become a franchise in the Middle East and North Africa and increasingly in other parts of the world.