Kenya Quotes

• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  Wangari Maathai

  Water, Environmental, Degradation

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• Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past, Long, Hatred

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• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Leadership, Power, Opportunity

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• Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

  Louis Leakey

  Senior, Hippie, People

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• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Film, Infrastructure

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• I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

  Rachel Hunter

  Animal, Born, Orphanage

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• It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

  Richard Leakey

  Migrants, Impossible, Nomad

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• In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

  Joanna Lumley

  Bird, Tree, World

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• When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

  Louis Leakey

  Father, Years, Way

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• We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.

  Shane Warne

  Change, Games, Needs

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• There is no room for communists in Kenya.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Rooms, Communist

  "Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity". Book by Norman N. Miller, 1984.

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• When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Land, Oil

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• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  Wangari Maathai

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Money, Blessing

  Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 27, 1964.

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• Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Healing, Land, Capacity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Kings, Rights, Roots

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• These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.

  Jay Leno

  White, People, House

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• Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing - and that's the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It's completely unacceptable.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  People, Use, Cleansing

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Hunting, Ideas

  "Ring for Jeeves". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1953.

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• Sidney Blumenthal is very close friend of Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. And her campaign manager, Patti Doyle, went to - during the campaign, her campaign against President [Barak] Obama, fought very hard. If you look at CNN this past week, Patti Solis Doyle was on Wolf Blitzer saying that this happened. Blumenthal sent McClatchy, highly respected reporter at McClatchy, to Kenya to find out about it.She failed to get the birth certificate.When I got involved, I didn't fail. I got him to give the birth certificate [of Barack Obama]. So I'm satisfied with it.

  Donald Trump

  Past, Cnn, Giving

  Source: time.com

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• In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.

  Wangari Maathai

  Rain, Coffee, Mean

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Growing Up, People, Definitions

  "The Beautiful Way Lupita Nyong'o's Career Has Come 'Full Circle' With Queen of Katwe". Interview with Shannon Vestal Robson, www.popsugar.com. September 23, 2016.

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• Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Independence, Acumen, Patient

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• President Obama and his wife are going to Kenya. Donald Trump said, 'While you're there, pick up your birth certificate.'

  David Letterman

  Wife, President, Birth

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• For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Qatar, Land

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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