Ethiopia Quotes

Ethiopia is beautiful. The people are so positive.

— Nyjah Huston

Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

— Flea

The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.

— Rodolfo Graziani

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

— Rod Stewart

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

— Haile Gebrselassie

And if you can change Addis, definitely you can change Ethiopia.

— Abiy Ahmed

There were no ugly people in Ethiopia

— Oprah Winfrey

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife,…

— Bono

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

— Jack Kingston

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

— John Gimlette

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

— Marcus Garvey

The United States and Ethiopia have years of strong partnership, based on a recognition that we need each other.

— Tom Malinowski

“There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.”

— Brynn Kelly

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

— Haile Gebrselassie

Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most.

— Cathleen Falsani

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications…

— Eskinder Nega

Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and…

— Helene D. Gayle

I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole,…

— Barack Obama

So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted…

— Geraldine Brooks

If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and…

— Ory Okolloh

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and…

— Elliott Abrams

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let…

— Marcus Garvey

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows…

— Liya Kebede

It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is…

— Liya Kebede

Civil society people - these are the people - civil society groups are the people who need to monitor the aid to…

— George W. Bush

Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation…

— Haile Selassie

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated…

— Dick Gregory

This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons…

— Marcus Garvey

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would…

— Eskinder Nega

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of…

— Dinaw Mengestu

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went…

— Adam Hochschild

“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz,…

— Paul H Blaney

“Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky…

— Doris Lessing

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

— Richard Leakey

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

— Abebe Bikila

From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

— Giles Foden

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

— Feyisa Lilesa

I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their…

— Liya Kebede

It was a dream of Bob Marley and it is a dream of the family to bury him in Ethiopia.

— Rita Marley