Abyssinia Quotes

#1. Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, nourished by Italian taxation, comprised a vast region in which nearly a quarter of a million Italian colonists toiled, and began to thrive, under the protection of more than four hundred thousand Italian and native troops.

Winston S. Churchill

#2. Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an important and much-admired British official.

Michael Dirda

#3. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Graham Joyce

#5. The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.

Ernest Crawley

#6. Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true
I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia ...

Edward Abbey

#7. I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.

Tim Kaine

#8. There are always roles that seem enticing that you can't do because of scheduling.

John Krasinski

#9. I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

Arne Glimcher

#10. We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

Bobby Slayton

#11. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Laozi

#12. Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

Abraham Verghese