"A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk." — Chinua Achebe

"A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk."

— Chinua Achebe

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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it,…
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…

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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it… — Charles Tilly
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop… — Ludwig von Mises
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one… — Woodrow Wilson
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly
Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer… — Ben Horowitz
Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot… — Nhat Hanh
One cannot pay the price of self-respect. — Woodrow Wilson
Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend… — Tom Hodgkinson
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. — Tom Peters
A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold… — Nouriel Roubini
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the… — Evelyn Waugh

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