Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Quotes

#1. I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

Mahershala Ali

#2. It is a waste if you embrace the kingdom of God without its principles

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell. There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpet of the swan.

E.B. White

#4. 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

#5. If you don't know who you are, anyone can name you.

Michael Meade

#6. Mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#7. 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

#8. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

John McCain

#9. 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