Jammeh Yahya Quotes & Sayings

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions. — Edward Hirsch

The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel! — Yahya Jammeh

Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe. — Yahya Jammeh

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge. — Pat Barker

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence. — Yahya Jammeh

I can cure AIDS, and I will. — Yahya Jammeh

I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey. — Yahya Jammeh

Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world. — Fulton J. Sheen

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage. — Yahya Jammeh

Our words reveal our heart, our actions reveal our soul. — Anthony D. Williams

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so. — Yahya Jammeh

the first time the caregiver saw it on the child. they said 'no. don't you dare. you will not grow up thinking you are unwanted. because your parents. chose themselves. over you. this will not be your story because it is not the truth. the truth. is your creation is not about them. you came through them, my love, they were your vessel. the truth. is you were born for you. you were wanted by you. you came for you. you are here for you. your existence is yours. yes. you will want them. (and on odd and warm nights they will think of you and hold themselves tighter.) but. what you do not get. from them. does not make you less. does not make you unwanted. (trust that all you did not receive. all you need. will come to you. in time. the universe is infinite.') - a love poem — Nayyirah Waheed

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans. — Yahya Jammeh

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life. — Yahya Jammeh

Working is a great distraction technique. — Phyllis Logan

I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything. — Yahya Jammeh

Homosexuality is anti-humanity. — Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives. — Yahya Jammeh

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor. — Yahya Jammeh

Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of. — Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine. — Yahya Jammeh

When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water. — Yahya Jammeh

Changes are impossible without God either in your life or in the country — Sunday Adelaja

Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia. — Yahya Jammeh

Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it. — Yahya Jammeh

Inside this building, the world had felt generous, limitless, like a safe spot for dreams to grow. — Blue Balliett

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country. — Yahya Jammeh

If I catch them, I will kill them. — Yahya Jammeh

Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights. — Yahya Jammeh

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another. — Yahya Jammeh

Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat. — Yahya Jammeh

A man who views the world the same ... — Muhammad Ali

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing ... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid. — Yahya Jammeh

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason. — Yahya Jammeh

I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive. — Simone De Beauvoir

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you. — Yahya Jammeh