Quotes About Rhodesia

#1. When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Doris Lessing

#2. I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

Wilbur Smith

#3. Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia ... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home.

Chaim Weizmann

#4. Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

Wilbur Smith

#5. At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#6. What! have you no monks who teach, who dispute, who govern, who cabal, and who burn people that are not of their opinion?

Voltaire

#7. When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

Peter Zumthor

#8. She would have had to keep her headscarf on, never laugh, never smile - if she smiles at a man he will think, 'Ah, she loves me,' " Mohamed explained. As

Geraldine Brooks

#9. To put it mildly, the world is a mess

Madeleine Albright

#10. One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#11. Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

William Weld

#14. And those who cherished the fear of God and lived in harmony with his will continued to increase in knowledge and wisdom throughout their life.

Ellen G. White

#15. This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

Jeffrey Whittam

#16. To be the best, you have to give everything all the time, then you have to give some more ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

#17. It means there are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome, and that to him, mountains of difficulty are as easy as an asphalt road!

Hannah Hurnard