Quotes From Things Fall Apart

The following are some quotes from "Things fall apart" written by Chinua Achebe.

He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days.

Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. Buying think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc.

Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a an danced so the drums were beaten for him.

That cannot be, said Machi. You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making babies.

"The world is large," said Okonwo "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and family."

At the most one could say that his chi or.... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.

"You do not know me," said the tortoise. I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

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

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