Jomo Quotes & Sayings

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future. — Jomo Kenyatta

Lore: Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS! — Wil Wheaton

Unity cannot be taken for granted. — Jomo Kenyatta

Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food. — Jomo Kenyatta

You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials. — Jomo Kenyatta

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. — Michael Ramsey

Damn, girl,' says Jomo. 'You can play hard to get.'
'Unfortunately for both of us,' I say, softening, 'I'm not playing. — Nicole Hardy

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta

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

It's to hard to be kind to the world when all you've ever felt is hate. — Tahereh Mafi

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression. — Kirby Larson

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. — Jomo Kenyatta

To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines. — Jomo Kenyatta

Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. — Jomo Kenyatta

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working. — Maika Monroe

The founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, was noted as saying, "When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible. — Michael Frost

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven. — Wernher Von Braun

God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people ... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others. — Jomo Kenyatta

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy — Edward Gibbon

You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings. — Seth

To be able to imagine the ohter, and the experience of the other was what wisdome was all about; but nobody talked about wisdom very much anymore, nor virtue perhaps because wisdom was nto appreciated in a world of glitz and effect. — Alexander McCall Smith

When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage. — Natalia Vodianova

All powerful souls have kindred with each other — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Little had changed after independence. Jomo Kenyatta's face hung in a framed portrait in every shop where Queen Elizabeth's had been. Some schools were built, some streets renamed. But educated people are a liability in a dictatorship: all the schools were underfunded, few of them succeeded. A great deal of foreign money was given to the government and most of it ended up in the pockets of politicians, some of whom were assassinated. It is almost impossible to exaggerate the fatness of corrupt African politicians. — Paul Theroux

Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot? This is breaking a head and giving a plaister truly! — Jane Austen