Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 39

Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.
Okey Ndibe
Sometimes, God’s silence is a challenge for us to act
Sunday Adelaja
Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this crazy, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.
Helen Oyeyemi
If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.
Sunday Adelaja
Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Deceptions and lies reign in a country where focus is on messages of miracles and wonders
Sunday Adelaja
We often agree with the devil’s lies and support his opinion about us by our actions
Sunday Adelaja
The ability of extension lies in responsibility
Sunday Adelaja
How long will you fake at living life? What will it take for you to see the beauty you've neglected while wearing the dirty lies expected of you?
Alfa H
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills
Fela Durotoye
Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.
Fela Durotoye
Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.
Fela Durotoye
Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in
Fela Durotoye
When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
As I’m beginning to find out, parenting is no child’s play, it couldSometimes determine whether couples continue to live together orgo their separate ways.
Oche Otorkpa
It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
children need love most when they don't deserve it
Ikechukwu Joseph
Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was 'women should not wear short skirts because they can get cancer if they do.' Instead the reason is not about women, but about men. Women must be 'covered up' to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A father is as much a verb as a mother.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.
Ogwo David Emenike
When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.
Ogwo David Emenike
Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.
Sunday Adelaja
The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.
Sunday Adelaja
The mountain of ignorance must be pulled down.
Sunday Adelaja
Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life
Sunday Adelaja
To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life.
Sunday Adelaja
Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life.
Sunday Adelaja
Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God
Sunday Adelaja
This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down
Sunday Adelaja
According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatoryThis generation might seem arrogant to the older generation due to some reasons. The older generation believes an older person or someone of higher authority is always right and being sceptical is an insult, lolOur generation is full of people who are so skeptical, they wanna know why this is this and that is that, they don't just hear and believe, they hear, hear from other sides, look at it critically and express their opinions based on their conviction.This generation is full of people who are somewhat confident cos they study, they observe and due to these, they are equipped with better information and like you know, knowledge is power. You know right from wrong, you know truth from lies.When you are with those in authority and have this knowledge, an ignorant person of higher authority would be scared of you, feel threatened and might resort to maltreating and frustrating you, defaming your character etcThe older generation and the younger generation are usually having misunderstanding because the older generation are being deceived by pride, the younger generation due to their advanced education do not wanna give merit to whom it isn't due. While the older generation postulates that respect is not earned but compulsory for them to be accorded, the younger generation believes respect must be earned. lolThe older generation rules by fiction but the younger generation lives by facts. The older generation uses age to oppress, the younger generation uses their knowledge to defend.The older generation believes they can never be wrong, the younger generation wants fair hearing, demands for it, if denied, they take it by force due to the confidence they've built around themselves.The older generation is unfair to the younger generation, there was once a time they were listened to without doubts and opposition, this is the time for the younger generation to be listened to due to advancement in education and exposure.The younger generation, due to their quest for higher knowledge through research, etc, they have realized the consequences of being ignorant and with their power of conviction, they are not letting the older generation have their autocratic ways affect them.To the younger generation, one should be able to prove whatever he says, no more latent heresies and this is what the older generation don't wanna hear of.The older generation wants to continue enslaving the younger generation but the younger generation is more equipped than the older generation and as such, not letting that happen.Technology advances every day, the younger generation are ever ready to adapt to the changes but the older generation is not ready for that, they wanna remain stagnant and still have the say of the day.Like George Bernard Shaw once said, the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated
Sunday Adelaja
Pastors uses peoples ignorance to spread their deception.
Sunday Adelaja
Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself
Sunday Adelaja
Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless
Sunday Adelaja
Lot of people do not realize that God cares for them and is able to fulfill His promises
Sunday Adelaja
Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation
Sunday Adelaja
There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
One of the greatest indicators of how much truth and honesty is in a country, is easily seen by observing how people drive around the city. What is their attitude to the rules of road safety? What is their attitude towards other commuters? Do they try to beat the system by all means? Do they try to get their way by hook or by crook, or they follow the rules? That is also part of corruption!
Sunday Adelaja
Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization.
Sunday Adelaja
True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.
Sunday Adelaja
The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.
Sunday Adelaja