"When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones……" — Chinua Achebe
"When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth"
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it,…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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More Chewing Quotes
This quote is filed under Chewing Quotes,
one of 127 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
— Dave Barry
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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of…
— Cecil Beaton
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -…
— Aesop
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Whenever you drop something by fight, it is never dropped. You can drop smoking by fighting, and then you will…
— Rajneesh
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A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps -…
— Rajneesh
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America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
— Unknown Author
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I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw,…
— Adam Goucher
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I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
— Padma Lakshmi
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Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I…
— John Candy
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I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was…
— Alice Englert
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I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else
— Alan Ladd
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