18 Quotes about Africa
By Jumi Eniola
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| Africa Quotes |
2. "If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa." - John Hemingway, American Author
3. "The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.” - Rich Mullins
4. "Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home.” - Beryl Markham
5.“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.”- Ernest Hemingway
6. "How can I explain to you my friend what I have seen and felt unless you too have seen it all… Africa."- Michael Burke
7. When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you’re leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.” - Francesca Marciano
8. "If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. “It’s really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else but lives in Africa.”- Will Smith
10. "To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.” - George Schaller
11. "The biggest lesson from Africa was that life’s joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.” - Andrew Shue
12. “For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by Africa, by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colours of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.” -Henry Louis Gates
13. “Having travelled to some African countries, I find myself, like so many visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Rather I am referring to the African people.” - Dennis Prager
14. If you only visit two continents in your lifetime, visit Africa – twice!” - R. Elliot
15. “All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.” - Ernest Hemingway
16. “I hope you have an experience that alters the course of your life because, after Africa, nothing has ever been the same.” - Suzanne Evans
17. “Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.” - J. Nozipo Maraire
18. “Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don’t." - Paul Theroux
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