Somalia Quotes

Somalia Quote of the day

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

We should teach the foreigners and colonialists that Somalia cannot be led by other people and that the traitors who fled the country will never lead Somalia.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

Somalia is facing many problems, I don't even know where to start.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.

Love will cost you dearly.And it will break your heart.But in the end, it will save the world.