Quotes About Senegal

#1. Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

John Updike

#2. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'- Buddha

Elias Axmar

#3. It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Joseph Roux

#4. If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Roy Keane

#5. Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

Youssou N'Dour

#6. My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.

Estelle

#7. I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

Youssou N'Dour

#8. New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#9. In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Barton Gellman

#10. Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

Youssou N'Dour

#11. One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

Nicholas Kristof

#12. The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she had of her own features and of the Khady heart that dwelled within her to which no one but she had access.

Marie NDiaye

#13. Sometimes people just need a second chance because sometimes we are not ready when fate hands us the first chance"--Liv

Kerry Heavens

#14. I will sing while you croak.

Henry Miller

#15. I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

Tracy McMillan

#16. I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.

Lionel Shriver

#17. I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

Youssou N'Dour

#18. I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.

Alice Waters

#19. I do what I do because I love it.

Ray Romano

#20. Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

Francois Hollande

#21. I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.

Abdoulaye Wade

#22. If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

Betty Furness

#23. The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

Peter Thiel

#24. When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

Youssou N'Dour

#25. God, he just wanted to push her up against the car, rip off her panties and bury his bare cock so far inside her that he could lick his own tip with his tongue in her mouth.

Shara Azod

#26. Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Stephen Vizinczey

#27. Change is important, but if you can't really change it, just keep calm, understand the situation and go through it with a good heart! Time will surely speak with time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#28. By 1445 they had reached the mouth of the Senegal River; in 1458 they discovered and colonized the Cape Verde Islands; by 1462 they had reached Sierra Leone; and in 1473 the Portuguese mariner Lopo Goncalves crossed the equator.

Clark B. Hinckley