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A sporting hero has been born in South Africa, and the country needs somebody young, fresh, enthusiastic and committed. This is a guy who you know will climb Everest for South Africa. [on Graeme Smith]
View quotes by Ali Bacher

I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa]
View quotes by Paul Boateng

'I'd move to Los Angeles,' he once said, 'if Australia and New Zealand were swallowed by a huge tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe and if Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.' Heat magazine, 4-12 May 2000.
View quotes by Russell Crowe

Africa always brings us something new. (Semper aliquid novi africam adfere)
View quotes by Plato

A herd of elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world (Out of Africa)
View quotes by Isak Dinesen

I think we would struggle to get that one through (on the South Africa policy of 'no women, no alcohol')
View quotes by Eddie Jones

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy... Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. (Entertaining Mr Sloane)
View quotes by Joe Orton

There is always something new out of Africa.
View quotes by Pliny The Elder

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
View quotes by Maya Angelou

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
View quotes by Desmond Tutu

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
View quotes by Desmond Tutu

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
View quotes by Nelson Mandela

The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.
View quotes by Joseph Thomson

For an 18-month suspension, I feel I probably should have torn it off. Then at least I could say, 'Look, I've returned to South Africa with the guy's ear.'
View quotes by Johan Le Roux

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest
obstruction; you do it yourselves. [Said Africa should ignore its £109 billion debt to
developed countries!]
View quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

So ordinary and unedifying was the sight of the batsmen getting dismissed regularly that the tag of 'chokers in crunch matches' now belongs to them and not South Africa, who had monopolised it for a long time now
View quotes by Sunil Gavaskar

I'd been in South Africa on a modeling job and they'd told me to lose weight. I didn't fancy that so I was on my way home. And that was when I got the call telling me I was the new Lara. It was such fantastic news. It's such a high profile job - and one of the few that lets you keep your boobs and bum. [on being Lara Croft]
View quotes by Lucy Clarkson

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
View quotes by Alan Paton

This is the most exciting part of the winter and South Africa are a good team who will provide a good test for us. [on leaving Zimbabwe]
View quotes by Michael Vaughan

South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge.
View quotes by Jonathan Agnew



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