Umuofia Quotes

#1. A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. - Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#2. Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school. - Author: Damon Albarn

#3. Here we are and there we go:---but where? - Author: George Gordon Byron

#4. An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. - Author: Leon Panetta

#5. The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. - Author: Henry Fielding

#6. Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. - Author: Scott McCloud

#7. There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. - Author: Chinua Achebe

#8. Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. - Author: Mark Twain

#9. Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today. - Author: Douglas MacArthur

#10. Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so. - Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley

#11. Maybe this is what alone really is - finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else. - Author: David Levithan

#12. War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language. - Author: A.O. Scott

#13. I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were. - Author: Sarah Dessen

#14. -Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
-Because I'll never cry for you again. - Author: Charles Dickens

#15. The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic. - Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#16. The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages. - Author: Chinua Achebe