Quotes About Palm Wine

#1. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

#2. What do you want in life?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Where, then, is our orator running off to, who was going to speak about a palm, but talks of nothing but a gourd? It started as a wine jar, why does it end as a water jug?

Martin Luther

#4. Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Greg Iles

#5. I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.

Elsa Peretti

#6. My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Roberta Flack

#7. The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#8. When Hitler came to power I was in the bath.

Anna Funder

#9. If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.

Eliezer Yudkowsky