Leaving Africa Quotes

#1. The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. Some people cannot bear news like that. They think they must live forever, and they cry and wail when they realise that their time is coming. I do not feel that, and I did not weep at that news which the doctor gave me. The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#4. Leaving South Africa was very difficult.

Kevin Pietersen

#5. God works through people. It's not me.

Muhammad Ali

#6. You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches ... Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

Brian Jacques

#7. Everything around you is your life and your opportunity

Sunday Adelaja

#8. When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.

Francesca Marciano

#9. I think that what people want is for government to function ... not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball.

John Cornyn

#10. Really I think I like who I'm becomin.. There's times where I might do it just to do it like it's nothin. It's times where I might blow like 50k on a vacation for all my soldiers just to see the looks on all their faces, all it took was patience

Drake

#11. Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

Victor Davis Hanson

#12. I like to work as much as I can, but I only really have the hiatus to work on other projects. I've kept myself busy recently. I voiced a character in 'Ice Age 4,' which was a lot of fun. I also did another small movie called 'The Scribbler.'

Kunal Nayyar

#13. If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.

Elliott Abrams

#14. Zeroth law: You must play the game
First law: You can't win
Second law: You can't break even
Third law: You can't quit the game.

C.P. Snow

#15. We cannot enjoy power in the priesthood until we learn to act by faith.

Robert L. Millet