Birth and Young Life
Okey Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria. His father was a postal worker, and his mother was a teacher. His early life in Nigeria was marked by the Biafran War, a subject that he later wrote about.
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Famous quotes containing the words birth, young and/or life:
“A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There was a young monk from Siberia
Whose morals were very inferior.
He did to a nun
What he shouldn’t have done
And now she’s a Mother Superior.”
—Anonymous.
“We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn’t matter so much as it seemed to do—it’s not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn’t matter so much.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)