Ahmadu Bello quotes

“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.”
-- Ahmadu Bello

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“My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

“My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!”

“I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.”

“Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.”

“I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.”

Source : "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

“I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.”

Source : "Alan Tudyk Talks TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SUBURGATORY, and Working With Joss Whedon". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2011.

“Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.”

“Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.”

“As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.”

“There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.  For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech.”