Somalia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.
-- Jack Osbourne

#People #Bananas #Somalia
Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.
-- Jan Egeland

#Receiving #Somalia #Resources
I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
-- Michael Palin

#People #Want #Somalia
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.
-- Michel Chossudovsky

#Somalia #Results #Staples
For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.
-- William Hague

#Matter #Somalia #Security
Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
-- William Hague

#Mogadishu #Britain #Somalia
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.
-- Hawa Abdi

#Self #Long #Somalia
When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.
-- Siad Barre

#People #Building #Somalia
You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
-- William G. Boykin

#Real #Idols #Somalia

Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.
Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, itâ€™s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what itâ€™s like to be that lobster in the pot, thatâ€™s in poetry too.
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't understand how compelling that can be, and will try to keep you in the â€œsafety zoneâ€. But f*#! that. Half the fun is venturing into the unknown, taking on the difficult task that yields new knowledge, doing more and testing your limits.
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.