Chinua Achebe Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Father, Fighting

• Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Past, Men

• My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Teacher, Religious

• A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Boys, Doors

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.18, Heinemann

• As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Looks, Corn

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.16, Heinemann

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