Quotes About Addis Ababa

#1. The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.

Haile Selassie

#2. [On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.

Dervla Murphy

#3. I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

Haile Gebrselassie

#4. The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

Guy Garvey

#5. Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate.

Teresa Of Avila

#7. Never tell a book by it' cover...

Michael Mandrake

#8. And the band - oh, sweet mercy - the band. They're like a cross between mini Justin Biebers and the Jonas Brothers, and the Halloween covers they're playing make my ears bleed.

Victoria Scott

#9. Sometimes when we mine a person's life, we find a heart of gold beyond the crusty exterior. - Janet Graham -

Gary Chapman

#10. I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

Sacha Guitry

#11. Stars are better off without us," he said, but too softly for anyone but Julie to hear.

James S.A. Corey

#12. The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Volker Grassmuck