Tanzania Quotes

• It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Football, Country, Zidane

  "A Political Football". news.bbc.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

  Jan de Bont

  Volcanoes, Lava, Location

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• I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

  David Lange

  Two, Missing, Bahamas

  "Sunday Herald" Newspaper, August 7, 2005.

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• In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

  Julius Nyerere

  Lost, Hundred, Units

  Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1974). “Man and Development: Binadamu Na Maendeleó”

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• I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Running, Elephants, Joy

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• If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.

  David Quammen

  Animal, Land, Work Out

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Country, Struggle, Dark

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• I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jane Goodall". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Poverty, Pennies

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• I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

  Bill Bryson

  Iraq, Trying, India

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• More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago in what was then fresh volcanic ash. Who does not wonder what these individuals were to each other, whether they held hands or even talked, and what forgotten errand they shared in a Pliocene dawn?

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Hands, Years

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• From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

  Giles Foden

  Country, Uganda, Numbers

  "The king and I" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Animal, Zimbabwe

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.35, Creators Publishing

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• Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.

  Kate Bornstein

  Ocean, Men, Two

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Stupid, Zimbabwe, Rights

  Interview with Financial Times, April 10, 2007.

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• When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.

  Herieth Paul

  Teacher, Children, Moving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Animal, Jail

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• I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

  Jane Goodall

  Dream, Animal, Opportunity

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• In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Government, Years, Creating

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• I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Sports, Country, Character

  "Tanzania: Mkapa - 'I Do Not Hate Sports'". allafrica.com. May 07, 2011.

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• Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

  Francine Pascal

  Crush, Block, Coffee

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think they (the Chinese) have better friends in Africa than us. But when we compare to how much money we get, if we succeed, if the MCA is funded by the US Congress for Tanzania, it's going to be $700 Million. It's going to be huge, it may be a total of all the Chinese have been giving us all these years.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Interview with William Wallis and Tom Burgis, www.ft.com. November 06, 2007.

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• In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

  Jane Goodall

  Struggle, Years, People

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