Quotes About Congolese

#1. Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well.

Stromae

#2. The Congolese are consistently rated as the planet's poorest people, significantly worse off than other destitute Africans. In the decade from 2000, the Congolese were the only nationality whose gross domestic product per capita, a rough measure of average incomes, was less than a dollar a day.

Tom Burgis

#3. Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Dikembe Mutombo

#4. The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#6. Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn,

Che Guevara

#7. Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese.

Teju Cole

#8. One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

Thabo Mbeki

#9. I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

Lynn Nottage

#10. I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

Tom Brady

#11. All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk.
All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

John McCain

#13. By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

John Woolman

#14. Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying.

Steve Goodier

#15. Maybe, Keller thinks, I've become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much.

Don Winslow