Top 31 Quotes About Lagos
#1. As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.
Babatunde Fashola
#2. Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.
Rem Koolhaas
#3. Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.
Rem Koolhaas
#4. Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#5. 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
#8. Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich.
A. Igoni Barrett
#9. Are you the first person to have this problem? You have to get up and hustle. Everybody is hustling, Lagos is about hustling, Nneoma said.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#10. That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.
Rem Koolhaas
#11. The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops
Teju Cole
#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. Adaora was beginning to see why Ayodele's people had chosen the city of Lagos. If they'd landed in New York, Tokyo or London, the governments of these places would have quickly swooped to hide, isolate and study the aliens. Here in Lagos, there was no such order.
Nnedi Okorafor
#14. Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so people come up with all sorts of ways to make a living.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#15. Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.
Rem Koolhaas
#16. 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
#17. The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.
Wole Soyinka
#18. We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained amazing stories.
Rem Koolhaas
#19. It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy man, how easy it was to slip into paranoid about 'Lagos girls,' those sophisticated monsters of glamour who swallowed husbands whole, slithering them down their throats.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#20. Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
Ricardo Lagos
#21. There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
Ricardo Lagos
#22. Let's not interfere with justice ... Let's let justice speak.
Ricardo Lagos
#23. We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
Ricardo Lagos
#24. We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
Ricardo Lagos
#26. My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Ricardo Lagos
#27. Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.
Ricardo Lagos
#28. It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
Ricardo Lagos
#29. We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.
Ricardo Lagos
#30. We don't always come out unbreakable the first time. So we are broken and rebuilt several times, until there is no question that we can stand on our own
Arlene Lagos
#31. We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
Ricardo Lagos
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