Beautiful Africa Quotes

#1. It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same meaning derived from the same Anglo-Saxon root.

Mark Kurlansky

#2. It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

James A. Michener

#3. Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.

Karl Rove

#4. My stomach turned and burned with the acid of failure

Heidi L. Ames

#5. Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.

David Quammen

#6. If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

Malcolm X

#7. I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

Karolina Kurkova

#8. He follows my eyes and curses, then slides his hands beneath my legs and back. "What are you doing?"
"Picking you up so we can run!"
"Don't be daft, my hand is broken, not my feet!"
"Right, that was stupid. Stupid.

Kiersten White

#9. Nobody ever plays the romantic part I write for them in my head.

Somi Ekhasomhi

#10. The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Alexandra Fuller

#11. South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty ... and the fact that the region is a haven for Africa's most splendid wildlife ... Then I think that we have been blessed with a truly wonderful land.

Nelson Mandela

#12. I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

Katherine Applegate

#13. This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

Donald Evans

#14. Animals are so beautiful. Why does an American dentist need to go to Africa to kill them? Look, I get it. You're a hunter? Go kill a deer and eat it or a bear where there's a lot of them. But I just don't get it.

Eric Bolling

#15. Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Matthew McConaughey

#16. For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

David Harewood

#17. If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

Michelle Yeoh

#18. 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.

Bai Ling

#19. monsters always look just like ordinary men.

Deborah Harkness

#20. You're a classic case of Horney's: the man who comforts himself not with what he achieves, but with what he dreams of achieving.

Luke Rhinehart

#21. Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

Natalie Maines

#22. I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.

Kris Allen

#23. The person in the balloon basket said "I hope you don't mind me helping, but it looked like you were having problems down there."
I said, "You're a Stegosaurus.

Neil Gaiman

#24. The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#25. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style ... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

Evangeline Lilly

#26. If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Nelson Mandela

#27. As Alan Paton said, 'Ah but your fucking land is beautiful'.

Andre Brink

#28. South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

Honor Blackman

#29. As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

William Matthews

#30. When you film in Africa, it's almost like a character in and of itself because it is so beautiful and has this special magic that I've never experienced anywhere else. There is something so incredibly beautiful about the light ...

Naomie Harris

#31. Oh God, not another fucking beautiful day.

James Fox

#32. For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

Rocco Buttiglione

#33. I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

Amy Adams

#34. I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

Athol Fugard

#35. Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.

Nadifa Mohamed