Kenya Quotes - Page 4

• I'm sure the government of Qatar is not coming in to grow food for the people of Kenya; it's coming to grow food to sell. If it can also sell to the people of Kenya, well, then good. I think that the moves can be helpful, but I think that the history that Africa knows, as I say in my book, has been a history of exploitation.

  Wangari Maathai

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Daughter, Attitude

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Yesterday, President, Calling

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• I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.

  Chris Coons

  Opportunity, America, Miracle

  "Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn" by Alex Isenstadt, www.politico.com. May 4, 2010.

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• Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

  Bill Gates

  People, Use, Digital

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2013

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• Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.

  Ilana Mercer

  Father, Commitment, Boys

  "The Big Lie about Obama and Race". www.wnd.com. January 23, 2009.

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• I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Country, Travel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.

  Mark Burnett

  Horse, Zebras, Children

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• Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia, Djibouti to Somalia, the devastating consequences of drought, desertification and land degradation are playing out before our eyes. The worst drought in 60 years has placed more than 13.3 million people -- predominately women and children -- in need of emergency assistance.

  Rajiv Shah

  Children, Eye, Years

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• You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you’ve got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.

  Pat Robertson

  Mean, People, Might

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• I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Mean, Japan, Class

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• I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world. I am especially mindful of women and the girl child. I hope it will encourage them to raise their voices and take more space for leadership.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Children, Voice

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• Many Israelis can get to know what's really happening. I mean, you have soldiers who go and see things. It's not like France and Algiers or, I don't know, England and Kenya or Belgium and Kenya. It's in your backyard. It's much more about willingness, indecision, the inability, or exposure. There is a decision not to be exposed. People can live like five minutes away from it all.

  Amira Hass

  Mean, People, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Needs, Chance, Ghost

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Country, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Silence, Stones, Hills

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.

  Barack Obama

  Book, Fighting, Expression

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• Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.

  Sylvia Browne

  Animal, Hands, Forever

  Sylvia Browne (2009). “All Pets Go To Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

  Barack Obama

  America, Moved, Ifs

  "Obama cracks jokes about weed and Clinton email at Washington dinner" By Greg Clary, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2015.

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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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• 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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