Quotes About Lagos Nigeria

#1. I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

Dayo Okeniyi

#2. I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

Justine Larbalestier

#4. The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Francois Rabelais

#5. CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to ...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END.

Cressida Cowell

#6. Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.

Andrew VanWyngarden

#7. Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

Francois Fenelon

#8. I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Fidel Castro

#9. Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.

Jane Casey

#10. Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.

David Hume

#11. If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

Joshua Ferris

#12. If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle anything around the world because you're able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned.

Nneka

#13. We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Andy Hargreaves

#14. Guy: What has nine arms and sucks?
Me: What?
Guy: Def Leppard.

Jason Myers

#15. In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

#16. Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich.

A. Igoni Barrett