Achebe Things Fall Apart Quotes

#1. The floodgates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. Who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted [Nwoye's] young soul
the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed. He felt a relief within as the hymn poured into his parched soul.

Chinua Achebe

#3. I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.

Sylvia Day

#4. It is a glorious privilege to be attending this, the greatest university in all the world ... take a good look and carefully analyze, and when you take the important points and sum them up, you come out with this final thought: Brigham Young University is the greatest university in the world.

Spencer W. Kimball

#5. He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days..

Chinua Achebe

#6. Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

James Freeman Clarke

#7. I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.

Rob Lowe

#8. No one creates a perfect resume on their first try.

Matthew T. Cross

#9. Ask Dujek about the reports coming down from the North Campaign. Elder magic - Kurald Galain. The Lord of Moon's Spawn is the Master Archmage - you know his name as well as I do.

Steven Erikson

#10. I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

Rigoberta Menchu

#11. The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Chinua Achebe

#12. Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Chris Martin