Top 28 African Proverb Sayings
#1. You know that African proverb 'When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground'? When Alice dies," Tom said, "it will be like a library burning.
Marja Mills
#2. You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village.
-African Proverb
Nicholas D. Kristof
#3. You know there's an old african proverb that i made up. if you want to go quickly, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. we need to go far, quickly
Al Gore
#4. There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.
Michael Meade
#5. Until lions start writing down their own stories, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. - AFRICAN PROVERB
Ellen Bass
#6. There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it.
Al Gore
#7. Casement quoted an African proverb: "A man doesn't go among thorns unless a snake's after him - or he's after a snake." He added, "I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.
Adam Hochschild
#8. I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.
Kofi Annan
#9. A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#10. Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#11. Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#12. I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.
Nelly
#13. Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.
Celinda Lake
#15. There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.
Peter Brook
#16. Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible.
Charles Dickens
#17. All our reporters and editors now work seamlessly in print and online. This integration has transformed the way we work. I believe this is vital to the success and growth of newspapers.
Lionel Barber
#18. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Anonymous
#19. I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
Angela Carter
#20. Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
Nafisa Joseph
#21. Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.
Anonymous
#22. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it ... It is unrequited self-love.
Emily Levine
#24. A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
Donald Trump
#25. Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence
Unknown
#26. I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.
Mattie Stepanek
#27. Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.
James O'Shaughnessy
