Umuaka Quotes

#1. Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.

Chinua Achebe

#2. Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

Lewis Pugh

#3. Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.

Watchman Nee

#4. A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#5. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be earning bread for himself and others; and he should be yearning, too: yearning to know the unknowable.

Christopher Morley

#6. Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.

Harold Dull

#8. I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

Walter Isaacson

#9. He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear
don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Sophocles

#11. Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. [ ... ] To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness. (WN 291-2)

Don DeLillo