Africa Quotations | Page 3

We (in affluent countries) used to talk for centuries about what we could do for Africa. But the real question is about empowerment, and what Africa can do for itself.

We are trying to get them thinking of having a technical school there, ... We want to help with that as well. I feel that as a human being if you see other people no matter who they are that need help, it would be inhumane not to offer some assistance. It can only work out for the betterment of Africa and Bermuda as a whole. I love the country and the children. I will definitely back.

There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India's AIDS problem will explode -- as it did in southern Africa -- but we now have direct evidence of something positive. The good news is that HIV in young adults appears to be declining in the south -- most likely or perhaps only due to men keeping away from (sex workers) or using condoms more often when they do. The not-so-good news is that trends in the north remain uncertain and poorly studied.

We are very similar and it is a very hard place to come and tour. In the past South Africa have had a big fear of failure but I think we have come to terms with that. We have come here and I know people have called us unimaginative but we are more open. We are looking forward to playing in front of Australian crowds and playing in Australia.

We have discussed a lot of options and he did come lower down the order for us against South Africa and got some runs. That's something we have considered and we have thought about it as well, but at the moment we want to give him some more opportunities. When he gets firing, he is very destructive and fetches good runs for the team, something he has done for us in the past, quite often.

We could see a huge charge for investment engagement in South Africa as a result of the World Cup. ... FIFA has a tremendous amount of confidence in the economy, political stability and the institutions of this country.

Everyone wants to see the real Africa before it is all gone - nature lovers, photographers, adventurers; but travel is getting so costly, few people can afford such a trip. Thats why we decided to sweeten the deal by adding international airfare. Now we have something nobody can resist. A real winner

Everyone speculated that South Africa was going to be a pushover. It just goes to show, as I've said all along, you have to play every game as if it's your last in these type of tournaments.

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.

At present only South Africa Airlines, Virgin and British Airways offer a true flat bed.

Disagreeable though it may be, we must admit that the racial policy which has been pursued here over the last 40 years has made South Africa stink in the nostrils of decent, humane people around the world.

Cricket South Africa welcomes this tough public stance taken by Cricket Australia in the fight against racism. Our players need to be protected against racism and we hope that these new measures will ensure this in Melbourne and Sydney.

Cricket South Africa did indicate they would try and get me more involved with the national team and give me more of a hands-on role.

And today the Negro people watch Africa and Asia and closely follow the liberation struggles of the rising peoples in these lands.

Europe can do much more for Africa and the developing world.

Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constructed for himself, according to his needs and desires, something that had little relation to the reality of the continent,

Ethiopia, the whole Horn of Africa is a very vulnerable part of the world.

Fish Africa has consistently attracted more international exhibitors, from more countries than any other trade show on the continent.

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

The time for Mugabe to grandstand ... as the grandmaster of anti-imperialism in Africa is now past. The game is up.

I started thinking about South Africa two days after the Italy game in mid-March, that's just the nature of the beast. We've played a lot of physical teams in the last 12 months but this is the ultimate challenge for us physically and we're playing them in their own backyard, so it will be really tough.

Israel salutes the United States, which has proven once again that it will fight the scourge of terrorism which, as last week's bombings in east Africa have shown, endanger the entire free world.

I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.

The risk of Africa getting bird flu is very high.

The sales total of 2,028 units reported to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) during December, pushed the year's sales volume to a final grand total of 27,413 units, which was second only to the previous all-time record of 30,742 units that had been established in 1981.

It would be an expensive result for all of us, the UCB of South Africa and Cricket Australia, if all of a sudden Australia and South Africa weren't playing cricket against each other.

These programs can generate positive spillover effects for neighboring countries as well as a powerful demonstration effect for all Africa by creating more convincing models for sustained transformation.

The shortfall is in billions of dollars, ... It is a catastrophe for Africa if the proposals that come from the grassroots of countries are not funded.

The specific risk in individual countries can be very high, and South Africa is not really an exception.

The silence of major governments in Africa continues to be shocking.

The sort of people who are impressed with warm words over Africa are precisely the same group of people who hate Tony Blair so much because of the war.

Our destinies are absolutely intertwined. Africa is absolutely fundamental for the South African economy.

Africa has 2.3 workers per 1,000 people. The Americas have 24.8 per 1,000 people. If you are a doctor in Africa, you have 10 fold (more) diseases to deal with compared to your colleagues in other regions.

Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.

Africa should no longer beg for debt relief but assert it as a moral and historical right .

Africa needs you, ... to break out a dialogue. I'm telling you this because you in the West are lucky, you vote for your own leaders.

Africa must be allowed to trade itself out of poverty,

Africa is poor because Africa hasn't grown. And it can only grow when it is allowed to trade freely and openly and fairly. That means these trade distorting subsidies must be removed by 2010, but we are nowhere near that.

Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the depth of Africa.

Africa is not just a place; it's a million places. It's a million voices, ... We felt no one photograph could capture the mystery, the diversity and the surprise of Africa as it moves forward. Our issue is a very forward look at Africa.

South Africa will still be very tough, you don't come here expecting anything less.

South Africa's trade with China is growing at an annual compound rate of 26% compared with the compound annual decline of 26% in trade between South Africa and the US and the 4% drop between South Africa and the UK.

South Africa played the better cricket over the five day and put us under a lot of pressure,

South Africa is screaming out for a broad-based policy response to deal with these obstacles.

South Africa is investing in products which will cut out export to entire countries.

South Africa is currently in the longest upward business cycle since 1945, having experienced 28 consecutive quarters of positive growth.

South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.

South Africa have been waiting for us for some time and from what I gather they won't have forgotten the outcome of that series,

South Africa have been doing well so far, but they've let themselves down by dropping a few catches.

South Africa does have a history of expropriation. That is why you have an expropriation act of 1975.

South Africa and Scotland are the only teams in the tournament that are taking part in the Commonwealth Games, but it is tremendously important to get match practice in test and tournament conditions.

Delta's new service to Africa will mark many firsts for our hometown of Atlanta and for our customers, including the first non-stop service between Atlanta and Senegal on the West African coast, and the first Delta-operated service from Atlanta to Johannesburg. We encourage our customers to make their support for Delta's first service to Africa known to help ensure a speedy approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation for this historic new route.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'

Apparently, international drug cartels are increasingly using West Africa as a hub for drug shipments into Europe and North America.

A scholarship for one student at Africa University covers tuition, housing, meals and medical care at a cost of $5,200. Support from donors can make such a difference in the lives of young African men and women.

As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

Australia might even displace South Africa as the world's largest gold producer later this decade.

AIDS is tightening its grip on southern Africa and threatening other regions of the world. Today's report warns regions experiencing newer HIV epidemics that they can either act now or pay later -- as Africa is now having to pay,

This is a sad day for Africa for Nigeria to succumb to this.

The university statement is a devastating blow to the divestment movement and those inappropriately comparing apartheid in South Africa to the Palestinian-Israeli dispute today.

This devastating disease was discovered in ostriches in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces of the country last year. Thanks to the assistance of all the role-players and stakeholders it was possible for South Africa to eradicate this worldwide epidemic threat from the country,

This chilling attack in our financial capital can only harm the reputation of South Africa as a place in which to do business.

This is a matter of too much of a good thing is not good after all. Whilst South Africa has recently been hit by disastrous droughts and is also known to be a water scarce country; the current constant rainfalls are now posing a challenge.

This is a crucial moment for Washington to help West Africa break a devastating cycle of impunity.

They should speak to their sponsors and tell them that every fourth year they will be playing in South Africa at that time.

They're wonderful images. (The exhibit) show Africa American dance has shaped what everyone in America now knows as dance.

A lot of our guys are in good form, there's a good feeling around the team and if we get out there and start the test match well I'm sure South Africa will find it hard to beat us.

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

They may have arisen in Europe or the Middle East and spread more readily east and west due to human migrations, as opposed to south to Africa because of geographic barriers. Or, they could have arisen in Africa, and increased in frequency once early humans migrated out of Africa.

This plot in this film is based on this particular case in Nigeria -- but it's very usual to test drugs in Africa because it's less expensive for big companies, ... City of God.

This locks much of Africa out of the benefits of CDM.

This is the most exciting part of the winter and South Africa are a good team who will provide a good test for us.

This just rams home how much the Western world is dependent upon the 'Wild West' for its energy supplies, whether its West Africa or the Middle East or Russia.

The relationship between the rand and gold prices broke down this year. The main theme was the narrowing of the interest rate differential between South Africa and the U.S.

There is that potential if some of the low-cost handset and infrastructure initiatives being promoted by manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson can help operators in India, China and Africa push coverage further inland and reach the smaller townships and villages.

It was a wake-up call. Everybody speculated South Africa would be a pushover. I was surprised at the caliber and how good they were.

It's a country in Africa, and Africa is a continent for Kenya.

It's about a real-life safari through Africa going after this huge, bull elephant. After all sorts of trials and tribulations, Scotty has this elephant in his cross hairs.

It's a question now of there being life after golf. I'd like to try and get back onto the European Tour fulltime again. But if that doesn't happen, I'll be happy to stay in South Africa and play the circuit here. I'm a family man and I have a good support base here.

It really has a sophisticated culture. There's European influence. It has native American roots and influence from Africa and the United States.

It is within that spirit that this meeting has taken place, ... We have over these past hours re-affirmed our commitment to these values. We have reviewed our common histories and shared experiences: The Bahamas accomplishing majority rule in 1967 and South Africa in 1994.

It's not security measures, it's not prisons in Madrid and walls in Africa that will solve the problem.

For instance, he spoke about how the eastern part of Africa had their own slave trade too, I didn't know about that.

It's the best part of music when we play music for free to give back to people. My band always plays better and I always play better when I know I'm playing for free to help heal or benefit or feed or educate someone. . . . It doesn't matter how many times you do concerts for Africa or South America or Indians. If people steal some of it, keep doing it. They can't steal all of it.

It's the rest of the world, Mexico, Latin America or the Middle East and we're doing more work in Africa as well. And these are places where GIS maps have not been traditionally made.

It's likely to be another difficult year for the rand. As the yield gap narrows, that will make it more difficult for South Africa to attract the investment it needs.

It's good to be here with your heroes and heroines. South Africa has been a beacon for freedom-loving nations, and what you have here is not only about the past but also about the future.

It's easy to take a team like South Africa lightly because we didn't know anything about them. But we didn't and we played well today.

It's pretty interesting listening to him talk about all the places he's from. I mean Joe is about the only guy I've ever known who is from Africa and France and New York City. He's got some roots.

Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat,it is just that no one ever gives them meat. Akan proverb, West Africa

Everyone I know who'd been (there) said (South Africa) was beautiful, the people were beautiful, and it was a nice mixture of Africa and Western culture. I knew from friends that my music was popular (there), so I was excited to go.

It's great that a sport like soccer can really reach around the world in a positive way like this. AIDS is a huge curse, especially in Africa. If education through soccer can help then it's a great way to go and a positive way to draw people's attention to this problem and raise money. Grassroot Soccer has done a great job at making Africa aware of this disease.

It was a minor injury. He was running when it happened. We took him to hospital in South Africa because we just wanted to make sure he was okay, and that done, he is now back to work.

It's within the ability of the Liberian people to seize their destiny, ... Unless he's brought to the bar of justice, eventually all of West Africa will be in jeopardy. And Nigeria won't be immune.

These textbooks will be created in Africa so they will represent the unique experiences of African students.

Once a disease like AIDS reaches the kind of proportions we see in sub-Saharan Africa it is no longer a disease, it is a disaster, ... Such a widespread disease destroys the work force and shatters the economy.

Not only does Air France provide a great opportunity for DFW to increase its service to Europe, it also opens up the airline's huge network, providing increased trade opportunities to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. New service like that of Air France and China Cargo allow companies reliant on foreign goods to bring their product to market faster, cheaper and ultimately provides the customer with greater choices.