Mozambique Quotes

I'm from Mozambique.

— Eusebio

If I hadn't left Mozambique, my football career would have died.

— Eusebio

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will…

— Carl Sagan

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa…

— Daniel Espinosa

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

— Paul Theroux

“Mozambique and Timbuctoo. We took long walks together, explored old ruins, chased butterflies and waved to passing”

— Ruskin Bond

You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the…

— Nicholas Stern

The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason…

— Miriam Makeba

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people…

— Henning Mankell

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned…

— Henning Mankell

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not…

— Henning Mankell

This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are.…

— Neil Gaiman

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women…

— Mariella Frostrup

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of…

— Henning Mankell

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime…

— Noam Chomsky

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them…

— Emma Thompson

This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest…

— Neil Gaiman

Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're…

— Henning Mankell