Hawa Abdi Quotes

#1. I would sooner die of a taipan bite then tell my dad that I got bitten by a taipan. Because my nose would bleed from his kicking my ass.

Steve Irwin

#2. Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart."
"And on your worst days?" she had asked that night.
"Even if it's only poetry, it's poetry to live by, Sofia
poetry to die for ...

Mary Doria Russell

#3. We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Hawa Abdi

#4. Women can build stability. We can make peace.

Hawa Abdi

#5. For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

Julius Wellhausen

#6. I believe in you, and your choices, and that most often and like mine, they will be wrong.

K.I. Hope

#7. God has HIS way of letting you know when you made the right or wrong decision. Pay attention when it happens.

Carlos Wallace

#8. Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

Luke Taylor

#9. Why be content with stain class, a Church steeple and religious rituals when God invites you into a loving and intimate relation with Him because His son Jesus Christ paid the full and final price for all your sins.

John Paul Warren

#10. Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#11. If you have a dream follow it or you may never know what you've missed.

Nancy Wolfe

#12. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Naomi Wolf

#13. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?

Mitch Albom

#14. I have had a horse. Why would I accept a donkey?

Dr. Hawa Abdi

#15. Let's explore something in deeper level by asking a question.

Deyth Banger

#16. I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Hawa Abdi

#17. To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.

Vironika Tugaleva

#18. I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

Hawa Abdi

#19. Work hard AND smart.

Mike Rowe

#20. When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

Hawa Abdi

#21. The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Hawa Abdi

#22. At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

Hawa Abdi