Top 34 Botswana's Quotes
#1. There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember, the United States would fit in Africa three times over and there would still be space. That's how big Africa is.
Patrick Bergin
#2. I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
Alexander McCall Smith
#3. A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy.
Thabo Katlholo
#4. There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.
Alexander McCall Smith
#5. Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
Mo Ibrahim
#6. Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place - and still be home in time to have dinner.
Mary Pope Osborne
#7. Although she was not a great reader, Mma Potokwane was a firm believer in the power of the book. The more books that Botswana had, in her view, the better. It would be on books that the future would be based; books and the people who knew how to use them.
Alexander McCall Smith
#8. To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.
Oswald J. Smith
#9. In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
Mark Burnett
#10. Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.
Terry Pratchett
#11. I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]
Socrates
#12. The reason to have history is to be able to say, 'This is where you came from. This is what it cost. This is what happened to us. This is what we fought against. This is what we did when we won. This is who we are.
Glenn Beck
#14. This was what it meant to live in Botswana; when the rest of the world might work itself into a frenzy of activity, one might still sit, in the space before a house with ochre walls, a mug of bush tea in one's hand, and talk about very small things: headmen in wells, goats and jealousy.
Alexander McCall Smith
#15. My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.
Alexander McCall Smith
#16. Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's ... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.
Jill Scott
#17. We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city
Thabo Katlholo
#18. I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.
Wilbur Smith
#19. Botswana was rich in diamonds, Ghana in cocoa and gold, Morocco in phosphates. There were many countries I was eager to visit and revisit, such as Zambia, with its emeralds and copper, and Cameroon, awash in oil. I could not wait to visit
Jim Rogers
#20. Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.
Colin Salmon
#21. The tongue of the righteous are like pure silver, but the mind of the wicked is worth little. The lips of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.
J.S. Fowler
#22. How come Justin Bieber never gets any better at being a thug?
Tarryn Fisher
#23. Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Keith Richards
#24. I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that.
Jim Abbott
#25. In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.
Eddie Murphy
#26. But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands."
Mma Makutsi whistled. "That is an amazing figure," she said. "Where did you read that?"
"Nowhere," chuckled Mma Ramotswe. "I made it up. But that doesn't stop it from being true.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
Alexander McCall Smith
#28. The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
George Ayittey
#29. You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.
Thomm Quackenbush
#30. There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
Vint Cerf
#31. So it was perfectly possible that there were men who liked shopping, men who understood exactly what it was all about, but Mma Ramotwe had yet to meet such a man. Maybe they existed elsewhere - in France, perhaps - but they did not seem to be much in evidence in Botswana.
Alexander McCall Smith
#32. Not much was said of Gaberone except its riches and its danger. The prisons were said to be in-escapable, the shanty towns cheap, the police didn't bother the illegal immigrants unless they were caught committing crimes. A dangerous paradise.
Thabo Katlholo
#33. Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all confused.
Alexander McCall Smith
