Nigeria Quotes - Page 5

• My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

  Donal Logue

  Mom, Tennis, Missionary

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  School, College, America

  "Five Questions with Hollywood Rookie Dayo Okeniyi on 'The Hunger Games'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. March 21, 2012.

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• When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Country, Oil, People

  Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Philosophical, Eggs, Hens

  "Transcript: CNN interviews Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan". Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

  Nneka

  Years, Two, Differences

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• During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

  Malcolm X

  Eye, Past, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

  Annie Ilonzeh

  Mother, Father, Skin Color

  "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel" By Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.

  Nicole Beharie

  Father, Littles, London

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• I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.

  Raila Odinga

  Grace, President, Defeat

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• Over 270 girls were kidnapped for going to school in Nigeria! They are still missing! I'M outraged and you should be too!! I'm supporting www.globalfundforwomen.org Join me and take a stand!!!!!!! #Bringbackourgirls #revolutionoflove

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, School, Missing

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• Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years

  Tony Elumelu

  Ambition, Years, Needs

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• Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Summer, School, Years

  "Talking with "Jackie Joyner-Kersee," from The Neighbors". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

  Uzo Aduba

  Father, Home, America

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• I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.

  Terry Gross

  Growing Up, Kids, Names

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

  Wole Soyinka

  Country, Oil, Petroleum

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• Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Home, Trying

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• I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Maryland, Columbia, My Time

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.

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• You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?" Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Soccer, Team, Player

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• The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Army, Should Have

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

  Robert Bateman

  Art, School, People

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• In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil.

  Oscar N. Onyema

  Oil, Growth, Entertainment

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• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  Dele Momodu

  Character, Frustration, Wish

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• Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Choices, Fundamentals, Way

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• We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.

  Wole Soyinka

  Past, Thinking, Space

  Source: saharareporters.com

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