(220 quotes found)
“Mr. Right's coming, but he's in Africa, and he's walking”
Oprah Winfrey
“People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.”
Chinua Achebe
“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”
W. C. Fields
“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.”
W. H. Auden
“The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.”
Joseph Thomson
“Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.”
Brian Jackman
“Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.”
Will Rogers
“If you can please people's hearts in Africa and Japan, then you're part of the world's family... not a tourist.”
Carlos Santana
“So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns”
Jonathan Swift
“Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomically modern Homo sapiens may have reached Europe from Africa only within the last 50,000 years. If time were a critical factor in the development of human societies, Africa should have enjoyed an enormous head start and advantage over Europe.”
Jared Diamond
