Somalia Quotes

• We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

  

  Hawa Abdi
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Leader

• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Children
  • Starve
  • Somalia

• Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

  

  William Hague
  • Interest
  • Britain
  • Mogadishu

• For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

  

  William Hague
  • Matter
  • Security
  • Stable

• It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• 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
  • Knows
  • Bigger

• I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

  

  Hawa Abdi
  • Government
  • Helping
  • Bigs

• We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • Country
  • Starting
  • Seven

• Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

  

  Nuruddin Farah
  • Death
  • Confident
  • Somalia