Chinua Achebe Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

  Chinua Achebe

  Moving, Giving, Black History

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jan 17, 2017

• He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

  Chinua Achebe

  Fighting, Earth, Grime

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

• "You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die."
  "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...]
  "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Children, Yams

  "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Fawcett Premier edition, (p. 64), 1969.

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