"The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did."

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Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Nov 08, 2014

Chinua Achebe

#Tree Quotes #Lizards Quotes #Praise Quotes

“I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.”
“Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.”
“Ive been playing music since I was born.”
“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own.”

Source : Space, Time and Gravitation (p. 131)
“Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.”
“Let's give them something to talk about, other than H A I R!”

Source : "'American Idol' says sayonara to". www.today.com. April 19, 2007.
“Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
“Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.”

Source : "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.

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