Ethiopia Quotes

In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this? Joanna Lumley
Day You Our Out Responsibilities Find Eat Give Only Take Like His Goats Expected Afraid Children Fields Might Whistle Ethiopia Whole Why
Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility. Jonathan Dimbleby
Heart First Destroyed Out Emperor Terrible Because Got Were Coverage Heard Denying Famine Ethiopia Even Engraved Film Credibility
The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city - there's Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, there's African-Americans, Latinos, Europeans. Kamasi Washington
Diversity Beauty Big Latinos City Angeles Idea Armenia Big City Los Came Los Angeles Up Very Just Where Grew Chinatown Little Ethiopia Tokyo Europeans Growing Growing Up
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life. Lisa Kristine
Life Son My Life Parents Daughter Adopted Lights Got Malaria Five Died Ethiopia Who Her Orphanage
I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it. Liya Kebede
Mom Me Care Birth Gave Proper Given Had Know Survived Available Might Ethiopia Even
My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school. Luca Guadagnino
Teacher School Mother Father Telecom Come Employee Am Go Ethiopia Film Film School Homosexual Raised
Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook. Marcus Samuelsson
Life Food Cooking My Life Born Always Been Lack Being Where Then Grandmother Really Sweden Ethiopia Cook
Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines. Meles Zenawi
Long Stupid Our Would Would-Be Emergencies Risk Havoc Been Famine Sensitive Ethiopia Such Things Things Watch
The... provisional government unwaveringly believes that it can solve all the present problems together with the broad masses of Ethiopia. However, we can do this only if all the people come out in unison to implement our planned undertakings. Meles Zenawi
Government Together People Problems Broad Our Out Solve Only Implement Come Masses However Provisional Ethiopia Planned Unison Believes Present
Eritrea is hellbent on destabilising Ethiopia. It does not care who it sleeps with. Meles Zenawi
Care Sleeps Does Ethiopia Who
As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa. Nipsey Hussle
Home Family Me Culture Conflict Older Side Back Our Telling Tried About He Between Involved Because Got How Came America Africa Stories Ethiopia Grandparents Pops Keep
I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London. Ruth Negga
Three London Had Between Like Until Around Ireland Very Childhood Then Ethiopia Lived Four
I had always believed that standing with Ethiopia's most vulnerable was simply the right thing to do. Tedros Adhanom
Right Thing Had Simply Most Vulnerable Always The Right Thing Ethiopia Standing Believed Right Thing
Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand. Tedros Adhanom
Health Respond Outbreak Ministry Only Joining Adult Part Observed Soon Also First-Hand Malaria Effects Shocking Where Children Experienced After Epidemic Ethiopia Team Village
During my tenure as Minister of Health of Ethiopia from 2005 to 2012, we achieved tremendous progress in tackling the many infectious diseases prevalent in resource-poor countries such as my own. Tedros Adhanom
Health Progress Own Tremendous Minister Tackling My Own Tenure Countries Infectious Diseases Achieved Ethiopia Many
It is so basic as to be mundane, but in disaster relief, all the good will in the world can go to hell in a hand basket if the logistics don't work. In Ethiopia at the best of times, the logistics are difficult. It is a huge country - about the same size as Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma combined. It is also a transportation nightmare. William Shawcross
Work Best Good World Will Country Hell Difficult Oklahoma Relief Logistics About Combined New Disaster Also Go Go To Hell New Mexico Hand Texas Huge Mexico Times Same Size Ethiopia Transportation Mundane Basic Basket Nightmare
I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix. Zoe Kravitz
Beautiful Music Beatles Stream Amazing Station Tribe Tribe Called Quest Some Brown Paris Over Mix West Quest Curate African Blues James James Brown Place Then Really Ethiopia Radio Radio Station Nova Based Play Funk Set
No nation helps more people around the globe. Our deep generosity is given so freely that it is simply expected, by others and by ourselves. From Ethiopia to Haiti to Japan where there is tragedy, famine or disaster, we lead the way with private and public help. Martha MacCallum
People Nation Others Our Way Ourselves Given More More People Lead Simply Generosity Freely Haiti Disaster Globe Around Private Tragedy Expected Famine Where Public Japan Ethiopia Help Deep Helps
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