Chinua Achebe Quotes

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

When you give someone your hand, it needs to be clean.

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

A person should not have a second class life because he chose the wrong parents.

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

My subjects are like children they cry when they are washed.

just because a king is a king that does not mean he is not as human as you

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

I think hygiene is so important.