Stampede Quotes

“I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)”
― Stephen Clarke, A Year in the Merde

“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Life is a stampede to get to the top”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Life is an invisible stampede”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“A full figured woman may proudly flaunt her dangling behind but unknown to many, they bruise as they cruise. In a stampede however, it dawns on her that her admired ‘superior’ posterior is a liability in reality.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Calling a dog lion is a misnomer infused with confusion and trouble. A household name for dog is sufficient. If a lion should roar, all will stampede for safety, including the dog.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“In a stampede, it dawns on a robust woman that her admired ‘superior’ posterior is a liability in reality.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1