Quotes About African Queen

#1. When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

Connie Willis

#2. It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

Theodore Bikel

#3. Human nature is what we were put on this earth to rise above. K. Hepburn in The African Queen

Jan Karon

#4. Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The

Jonathan Sacks

#5. Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Franz Liszt

#6. Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#7. A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Jules Verne

#8. There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.

Queen Latifah

#9. There was rain on steroids.

Henri Cole

#10. Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.

Gwenda Bond

#11. Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

Bam Margera

#12. C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)

Richard Preston

#13. The ball is an essential part of the game.

Johan Cruijff

#14. Even the worst of men was someone else's brother, child, parent, lover.

Taylor Stevens

#15. The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman

#16. From a nearby doorway, a sweaty, shirtless man with a bald head emerged carrying a large copper pot. He unceremoniously cast the pot's contents, the bony remains of several stewed animals, into the street.

Michael J. Sullivan

#17. Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

Richard Eyre

#18. That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale - bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion - all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world's most seriously corrupt kings.

Kristin Cashore

#19. May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing.

Marianne Williamson

#20. The cool breeze that ruffled her hair felt like something more than wind.

Bentley Little

#21. I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Queen Latifah

#22. How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.

From View With a Grain of Sand

Wislawa Szymborska