Hawa Quotes

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

Hawa Abdi

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

Hawa Abdi

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

Hawa Abdi

#4. And Rune, her heart beating hard with delight, leapt into the middle of the battle. That was what she needed, wanted, craved. The fight.

Laken Cane

#5. Those more deeply informed about the period are much more cognisant of the roads not taken.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Grover Cleveland

#7. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled memories.

Kate Morton

#8. I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

Emilie Autumn

#9. Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that ... "

Sasha Grey

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

Dr. Hawa Abdi

#11. My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'

Jason Momoa

#12. Ambrose managed to fight his way free long enough to shout, Am I the only ghost here doesn't know how to ghost?

Abigail Roux

#13. The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Embrace your imperfections.
Fancy your flaws.
Flaunt your blemishes.
Adore your birthmarks.
Laugh off glitches.
Discuss your setbacks.

Don't call your mistakes 'Regrets'
Call them 'Lessons

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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

Hawa Abdi

#16. Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#17. 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

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

Hawa Abdi

#19. Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Hawa Abdi

#21. It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

James Arthur