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

  Richard Leakey

  Migrants, Impossible, Nomad

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Vision 2030 is aimed at transforming Kenya from a struggling third-world economy into a second world economy - We do believe that it is a realizable objective; we don't believe that it is utopia. We know that it has been done in some.

  Raila Odinga

  Believe, Struggle, Vision

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• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sleep, Cities, Elephants

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• I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Brother, Kids

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.

  Tom Morello

  Father, Parent, Movement

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

  David Letterman

  New York, Race, Cities

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• The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Uganda, Islands, Mad

  "Kenyan MPs' Fury Over Island Row". news.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2009.

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• The White House announced that President Obama will attend a summit in Kenya this July. When asked if he's ever been to Kenya, Obama said, 'Of course. I was born - no, bored - over there. There's nothing to do in Kenya.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  July, White, Bored

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• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Film, Infrastructure, Scales

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