Logo
Quote by Chinua Achebe
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Niger

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. – Chinua Achebe

Other quotes by Chinua Achebe

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe

Category:
strength
Author
Chinua Achebe
Read Quote

Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

Category:
Art
Author
Chinua Achebe
Read Quote

Ive had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. – Chinua Achebe

Category:
Religion
Author
Chinua Achebe
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
teacher
category

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher. – Morihei Ueshiba

Category:
teacher

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesnt have tenure. – Bill Gates

Category:
teacher

Im sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything – I do everything all wrong – but I think for me thats the best – because I dont think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style – if I learned to sing Id lose my style. – Julie London

Category:
teacher

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. – Helen Keller

Category:
teacher

Random Quotes

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people dont have to leave. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

Category:
Hope

Ive had quite a lot of luck with dreams. Ive often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. – Brian Eno

Category:
Dreams

If you can approach the world – Daniel C. Dennett

Category:
Curiosity

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. – Marquis de Sade

Category:
Nature