Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes

#1. I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible ...

August Wilson

#2. Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#3. It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#4. The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance , which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration , to realizing economic determination , becoming mentally emancipated , and ushering in a political resurgence.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#5. Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#6. At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.

Richard Morris

#7. A man cannot live without water. He cannot live without it, but he can bear the thought of no water. A man can live without sex. He can live without it, but he cannot bear the thought of no sex.

Monica Ali

#8. Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

Gloria Naylor

#9. Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

N. T. Wright

#10. My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#11. Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#12. No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#13. There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#14. This considerably softened my resentment, though it did not make me relent. I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave, and I could live without him if I chose.

Anne Bronte

#15. Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

John Green

#16. Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality ... is conscious and alert ... The lower personality is a ... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature ...

E. M. Forster

#17. I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.

Peter Dicken