#ethiopia

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#i #look #out #rivers #run

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism. ↗

— Abebe Bikila

#country #determination #ethiopia #heroism #i

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #although #domestic #domesticated #ethiopia

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#cup #england #ethiopia #exceptional #just

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#break #cars #else #ethiopia #get

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#became #before #black #christianity #christians

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#ethiopia #eyes #feel #i #i feel

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. ↗

— Bono

#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american #any #bald #because #bellies

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

— Richard Leakey

#anarchy #borders #distance #ethiopia #military