Given Quotes

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information.

Knowledge of any value can’t be given. It must be sought and earned

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.