Athi Quotes & Sayings

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. — William Faulkner

Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living, and still later scouting Tanganyika and the waterless bush country between the Tana and Athi Rivers, by aeroplane, for elephant, I remained so happily provincial I was unable to discuss the boredom of being alive with any intelligence until I had gone to London and lived there for a year. Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic. — Beryl Markham

As the master creators on this planet, we can improve conditions for all and learn greater respect for others. — Bryant McGill

Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need. — Elie Wiesel

And no kinds of love are better than others.

Some Kinda Love — Lou Reed

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded. — Nicolas Sarkozy

Maybe then our stopped time would move again." The — Banana Yoshimoto

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute. — Bruno Mars

Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick. — Ambrose Bierce

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write. — Matthew Reilly