Quotes About South Sudan

#1. I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

Emmanuel Jal

#2. The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? ... Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

John Gay

#4. When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Emmanuel Jal

#5. It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as a nation proud of its immense diversity.

Duop Chak Wuol

#6. If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

Igor Sikorsky

#7. Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

Mo Ibrahim

#8. As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

Maurissa Tancharoen

#9. The Republic of South Sudan does not belong to a particular tribe - it belongs to all tribes of South Sudan; those who think so should think coherently. The truth is, tribalism kills and destroys.

Duop Chak Wuol

#10. South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

Henry Rollins

#11. By "West Sudan," for instance, an almost vanished term, people understood the whole gigantic stretch of savannah immediately south of the Sahara, from the Atlantic to Darfur in the country now known as Sudan.

Jurgen Osterhammel

#12. You keep playing, you get a lead and build on it. People get mad when you keep playing, but that's part of the game, too.

Steve Spurrier

#13. A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

Ger Duany

#15. I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

Samuel Barnett

#16. What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

Russell Smith

#17. It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

Duop Chak Wuol

#18. The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.

Nick Turse

#19. I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

Lynsey Addario

#20. Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

Lynsey Addario

#21. We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

Ger Duany

#22. An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

Elliott Abrams

#23. The south really wants Abyei; they have a core constituency who reside in the area who believe that Abyei belongs to the south. There are a number of those sons of Abyei in high positions of government in South Sudan, so it's pretty hard for South Sudan to just walk away.

Rebecca Hamilton

#24. Hypocrisy, is when individuals become abnoxiously contradicting, unrealistically criticizing the government of South Sudan, but yet are part of the puzzle underneath the Salva Kiir's regime.

Audrey Hepburn

#25. I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

Morgan Brittany

#26. It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.

George Clooney

#27. Manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Og Mandino

#28. The mentality of who is your uncle - an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan's internal conflicts.

Duop Chak Wuol

#29. Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

Jimmy Carter

#30. Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

#31. The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

Leland Stanford

#32. I've been told that I am "better in the room" and prettier in person.

Amy Poehler

#33. Don't be a Pollyanna!

Richard Diebenkorn

#34. Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

Pope Francis