My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she... -Vick Hope

My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important that my brothers and I knew how to fend for ourselves. My dad bought me a Swiss army knife for my 13th birthday and we used to go camping and he showed me how to light fires.

Vick Hope Quotes to Explore

My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important that my brothers and I knew how to fend for o...

Travelling alone gave me time and space, free of the pressures of trying to verbalise experiences, so I could simply feel the joy of my own existence....

Sometimes I worry that I'm terrible at communication and keeping in touch, but there are some friends who you can reconnect with whenever and it's lik...

I used to do people's online dating for them. I had clients in San Francisco, L.A., New York and they'd pay me $800 a month to basically make them pro...

I'm from Newcastle and went to Cambridge University and I worried whether I'd fit in; I'm mixed race, so my mum grew up in Nigeria and my dad grew up ...

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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is...

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in ...

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences....

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first....

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Cen...

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services....

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, wh...

Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demoniz...

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature....

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?...