Zimbabwe's Quotes: top 45 famous quotes about Zimbabwe's

Zimbabwe's Quotes & Sayings

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Cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me! — Richard Pryor

Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs — Kyle Bass

The poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition. — Panashe Chigumadzi

Does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome? — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. — Robert Mugabe

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months. — Harold Wilson

If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first. — Robert Mugabe

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

We're hungry but we're together and we're at home and everything is sweeter than dessert. — NoViolet Bulawayo

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly. — Thabo Mbeki

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. — Christopher Hitchens

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning. — Jeffrey Whittam

Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe. — John Bolton

A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy. — Thabo Katlholo

Fame is an elastic concept, especially in a place like this, where we all know the smell of each other's armpits. - 'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion — Petina Gappah

Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same. — Petina Gappah

If you can walk you can dance, and if you can talk you can sing. — Zimbabwe

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. — Robert Mugabe

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe. — Kenneth Kaunda

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl. — Ilana Mercer

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. — Helen Clark

I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are concerned. — Helen Suzman

Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe. — Andrey Illarionov

They had become a nation of traders. — Petina Gappah

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. — Bill Gates

A voice reminds us that the land is ours, it will not be taken from us again; the country will never be a colony again. - 'Something Nice from London — Petina Gappah

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

You can't fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,' says the ng'anga. — Panashe Chigumadzi

He doesn't tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I've heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise. — NoViolet Bulawayo

The funnel of my family's salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman's toes — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales. — Philip Pullman

Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. — Robert Mugabe

I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe deserve a free and fair election. — Raila Odinga

[L]ife is one big jest at the expense of humanity. -
'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion — Petina Gappah

If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names. — NoViolet Bulawayo

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe. — Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources. — Robert Mugabe

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. — Mo Ibrahim

Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well. — Nicholas Kristof

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places. — Tinashe