Wolof Proverbs Quotes

#1. Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Bill Gates

#2. Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

George Eliot

#3. I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

Vernon Howard

#5. She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

Noel Coward

#6. A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

Bassam Tibi

#7. If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

Peter Morgan

#8. No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

Isabel Allende