100 multicultural proverbs : inspirational affirmations for educators /: inspirational affirmations for educators. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: One hundred multicultural proverbs
• Further Information: Note: Festus E. Obiakor ; foreword by Jacob U. Gordon ; afterword by William B. Harvey.
• Other Names: Obiakor, Festus E
• Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Author; 1. Proverbs That Teach Self-Responsibility; Proverb #1: If Everyone Loves You, You Will Not Know Who Poisoned You; Proverb #2:If You Tell a Tree that You Will Kill It; Proverb #3:The Rat That Joins the Lizard to Get Wet in the Rain; Proverb #4: What You’re Looking for Is What You Will Get; Proverb #5: What a Person Does Is in His Heart; Proverb #6: If You’ve Not Reached Where You’re Going, You Should Keep Going; Proverb #7: Eneke the Bird Noted That Since Men Have Learned to; Proverb #8: Your Intelligence Is Your Handbag, and You Carry It; Proverb #9: When a Young Man Washes His Hands Properly; Proverb #10: The Lizard That Fell From the Iroko Tree Said That If; Proverb #11:The Person Who Blows the Flute Must Sometimes Wipe His Mouth; Proverb #12:The Dog Does Not Chew the Bone That Is Hanging Around Its Neck; Proverb #13: If You Do Not Allow People to Know What Your Size; Proverb #14: If You Pull a Tree and It Pulls You Back, You Should Leave it Alone; Proverb #15: If One Is Not Careful, What Destroyed His Father Might Destroy Him; Proverb #16: As You Make Your Bed so Will You Lie on It; Proverb #17: If You Try to Wrestle Down Your Father, His Wrapper Will Cover Your Eyes; Proverb #18: When You Chew the Dried Meat, it Fills Up Your Mouth; Proverb #19: You Can Cry All You Want, But You Cannot Cry Out Blood; Proverb #20: Where You Live Is Where You Protect; Proverb #21: Money Is the Beauty of a Man; Proverb #22: It Is Not the Load That Breaks Us Down; It Is the Way We Carry It; Proverb #23: A Good Name Shines in the Dark; Proverb #24: A Person Who Does Not Concede Defeat Is Not a Good Sport; Proverb #25: A Person Who Praises the Rain Has Been Rained On; 2. Proverbs That Teach Collaboration and Consultation; Proverb #1: Life Is in the Ears; Proverb #2: To Come and Eat Is Not to Come and Work!; Proverb #3: A Tree Cannot Make a Forest; Proverb #4: When Mother Cow Is Chewing Grass, the Younger Ones Look at Her Mouth; Proverb #5: It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child; Proverb #6: When You Wrestle Someone to the Ground, You Also; Proverb #7: A Fool Does Not Know That His Brother or Sister Is a Visitor; Proverb #8: The Fly Without an Advisor Follows the Dead Body Into the Grave; Proverb #9: A Gathering of Kinsmen and Kinswomen Is an; Proverb #10: When Two Elephants Fight, Grasses Suffer; Proverb #11: Laughter Is Just a Matter of Moving Back the Cheek; Proverb #12: A Good Friend Is Better Than a Bad Family Member; Proverb #13: The Tiger’s Cub Does Not Chew Grass; Proverb #14: If You Give Your Mother a Counterfeit Money, You; Proverb #15: The Person Who Sits Next to Someone Can Easily Smell His Mouth; Proverb #16: The Knife and the Axe Do Not Compete; Proverb #17: You Cannot Climb a Tree Without Support; Proverb #18: Let the Kite and the Eagle Perch and Whichever One; Proverb #19: The Crazy Person and His Mind Understand; Proverb #20: In My Poverty, Let Not Poverty Befall the Person Who; Proverb #21: The Child’s Home, Even If It Is Trashy, Is Always a Palace Away From Home; Proverb #22: The Rooster Does Not Forget Who Plucked Its Feathers; Proverb #23: When the Moon Is Shining, a Person With a Physical; Proverb #24: When a Child Is Tired of Working, He Resorts to Fighting; Proverb #25: When You Dig a Ditch for Others, You Might Fall in It; 3: Proverbs That Teach Spirituality; Proverb #1: If You’re Eating With the Devil, You Must Use a Long Spoon; Proverb #2: If You Fall Down and Do Not Stand Up, Evil Will Take Over; Proverb #3: God Does Not Give You a Load That You Cannot Carry; Proverb #4: Evildoers Are Usually Pursued By Their Own Shadows; Proverb #5: Do Not Put Yourself Where Your Faith Will Fail You; Proverb #6: I Am Holding My Staff and You Are Holding Your; Proverb #7:The Toughest Head Carries the Masquerade; Proverb #8:Let’s Continue to Sacrifice and Let the Blame Go to the Gods; Proverb #9:God Gives and God Takes; Proverb #10: If You Are Better Than Someone, You Might Be Better; Proverb #11: No Person Is God; Proverb #12: God Knows the Heart of Everyone; Proverb #13: The Same Mother Delivers the Children, but the Same; Proverb #14: When You Believe, Your God Will Believe; Proverb #15: God’s Time Is The Best; Proverb #16: You Can Never Become Someone Else’s God; Proverb #17: The Opportunity That God Sends Does Not Wake Up; Proverb #18: Everyone Has His/Her Own God; Proverb #19: There Is No Partnership Between Good and Evil; Proverb #20: A Person Who Ridicules Good Will Become Overtaken by Evil; Proverb #21: The Fear of God Is Not Based on What We Wear; Proverb #22: A Person Who Trusts in God Lacks Nothing; Proverb #23: A Witch Doctor Does Not Cure Himself; Proverb #24: Where There Are Many People, There God Is; Proverb #25: The Veil Spirit of a Person Is a Person; 4. Proverbs That Teach Other Life Lessons; Proverb #1: Nights Have Ears; Proverb #2: As Much as You Love Your Husband, You Will Not Want to be Buried Alive With Him; Proverb #3: When a Poor Person Is Told What It Takes to Be Rich; Proverb #4: The Frog Does Not Come Out in the Daytime for Nothing; Proverb #5: A Traveler Is More Knowledgeable Than an Aged Person; Proverb #6: The Dying Dog Does Not Smell the Bad Odor; Proverb #7: We Never Go Back to Yesterday; Proverb #8:Patience Is King; Proverb #9:You Do Not Tell the Deaf Person That; Proverb #10: The Hot Soup Is Usually Licked Slowly; Proverb #11: When the Wind Blows, You See the Chicken’s Buttocks; Proverb #12: Truth Is Life; Proverb #13: Soiled Hands Lead to the Oily Mouth; Proverb #14: The Patient Person Eats the Best Part of the Fish; Proverb #15: All Lizards Are Lying on Their Stomachs, and; Proverb #16: When the Child’s Sore Is Healed, He Tends to Forget the Pain; Proverb #17: A Child Must Crawl Before Walking; Proverb #18: The Look of a Child Determines If You Will Take Food From Him; Proverb #19: It Does Not Matter How Bad the Yam Is; It Is Still; Proverb #20: When Dried Bones Are Mentioned, Old People Feel Uneasy; Proverb #21: A Person Who Is Already on the Floor Does Not; Proverb #22: Tomorrow Is Pregnant; No One Knows What It Might Deliver; Proverb #23: There Is No Use for a Dry Porridge; Proverb #24: As the Cow Gets Older, Its Nostrils Get Bigger; Proverb #25: Anything With a Beginning Must Have an End; Afterword;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (120 pages)
• Subjects: 398.9; Proverbs; Education -- Quotations, maxims, etc; Inspiration -- Quotations, maxims, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452295466; 1452295468
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