Things Fall Apart Quotes

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you, ' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough, ' said Okonkwo.'Then kill yourself, ' said Obierika.

There is no story that is not true, " said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.