1,044 Quotes About Africa

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities with regards to their pastor's messages. I think if every pastor should have entrepreneurial knowledge coupled with spiritual integrity, Africa will shake!

No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match.

If you want to sing, sing like today is your last.If you want to dance, dance like today is your last.If you want to laugh, laugh like today is your last.If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying about who is watching them, and hyenas laugh without worrying about who is mocking them, then you too must do what you do best without worrying about who is ridiculing you.

The first time you fail it is a mistake, the second time it is carelessness, the third time it is incompetence,the fourth time it is mediocrity,and the fifth time it is inability.The first time you succeed it is chance, the second time it is luck, the third time it is skill,the fourth time it is talent,and the fifth time it is genius.

I was scripting for a series on the Arts programme which was shown very late on a Sunday evening, and I was sent off to get the low down on several up and coming musicians who would be featured each week. To the music world, they may have been up and coming, I would have preferred them to be down and going and preferably out of range.

I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff of daydreams, borne of long, icy Canadian winters. At age 30, I felt I already knew my priorities, talents and limitations. The year in Africa forced me to question all of these assumptions.

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.