Best Somali Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Brraaac bish kac dhac, its the sound of the victory.”

Sound Victory Quote The Of Somali Xigasho

“I have always been a loner. Even as a child, when my family and friends were off attending parties I would be sequestered in my room, sketchpad in hand, stereo by my side, listening to seductive R&B. Solitude was something I took for granted. Coming from a large family I needed solitude in order to think straight and paint my way out of confusion. My parents were accepting of the fact that I kept to myself and they respected my decision even though it went against my Somali upbringing, a culture rooted in boisterousness and joie de vivre.”

Solitude Aloneness Somali

Author:Diriye Osman

“Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)”

Somali

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“Since the water turns into Ice Different physical shapes the eye See but indeed their building blocks still remain same easy, (H2O) Farah Said.”

Somali Qoute Erayo

Author:farah Said

“gud hadimo ha qodin, hadaad qodona ha dheerayn ku dhici doontaana mooye.”

Qoutes Somali

Author:un-known

“Dadaala xaaji cabaas waa gaadha, oo dhaafi karaa”

Qoutes Somali

Author:un-known

“Be as very careful in love as you would be in business.”

Love Life Quotes Business Careful Somali

Author:F.M. Sogamiah

“Mulki being the dreamer that she was latched herself onto this unassuming mentorship and had begun her graduate studies with high hopes of one day becoming an archaeologist of her own and leading Somali based exploration team to uncover the lost history of her country of origin.”

Somali

Book:The Dig Up

Source: The Dig Up

“[Bashe] found it easier to swallow all of the hardship he faced growing up, this pent up anguish became a well-disciplined beast, that was never meant to see the light of day or be dealt with in any capacity whatsoever.”

Somali

Book:The Dig Up

Source: The Dig Up

“She had a peculiar prettiness, a kind of captivation, that was evanescent, and took a second glance to be adequately detected. But once found the beholder knew they had discovered a rare treasure.”

Somali

Book:The Dig Up

Source: The Dig Up

“Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.”

Plant Desert Potatoes Crowded Rwanda Somali Crowded Places

Author:Jim Fowler

“The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.”

Needs Years Stills Lasts Next Force Water Wealth Style Dare Creator Britain Pirate Navigate Gale Somali

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.”

Skinny Gis Somali Ingrates

Author:Nuruddin Farah

“I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.”

Ifs Thinking Character Stories Jobs Actors Fit Somali

Author:Barkhad Abdi

“The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.”

People Film Black Paint Savages Hawks Somali Black Hawk Down

Author:Brendan Sexton III

“[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food.”

Children Self Nations Water Violence Resources Response Western Greedy Exploits Defence Piracy Somalia Water Resources Self Defence Maritime Somali

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.”

Made Home Community Cities Scales Delaware Somali Wilmington

Author:Joe Biden

“Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community, i might add if you ever come to the train station with me you'll notice I have great relationships with them because there's an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I'm not being solicitous. I'm being serious.”

Ifs Made Real Home Might Community Cities Mines Serious Add Train Driving Scales Awful Stations Cab Great Relationship Delaware Somali Train Stations Wilmington

Author:Joe Biden

“Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.”

Years Littles War Achievement Terror Merit Als Contrast September War On Terror Great Success Charitable Withdrawal Financing Somali

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny . And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities and the fulfilment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.”

“I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business.”

Ifs Long Turns Individual Path Deserve Divides Deviate Somali

Author:Siad Barre

“Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.”

War Evil Lawyer Aliens Als Versus Pirate Al Qaeda Predator Somali

Author:Craig Ferguson

“We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers.”

People Helping Sides Support Brother Soldier Extremist Narrow-minded Somali

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.”

Thinking Language Sound Rich Terrible Normal Filling Terrible Things Perfectly Normal Somali

Author:Warsan Shire

“Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.”

Ifs Done Girl Courses Father Rooms Alive Brother Suicide Committed Pregnant Burned Living Room Gasoline Infidel Unmarried Somali Father And Brother Mogadishu

Book:Infidel

Source: Infidel

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”

Wells Ends Matter Running Spirit Land Baby Built Sticks West East Texas Terrified Cages Free Spirit Wild Things Breakfast At Tiffanys Somali

Author:Truman Capote

“It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.”

Thinking Helping Shows Moving Community International Solidarity International Community Somali

Author:Jan Egeland

“We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.”

Needs Sides Effort Plans Development International Assistance Reconstruction Coordination Somali

Author:Jan Egeland