Wise Kikuyu Quotes & Sayings

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country. — Aravind Adiga

Never give up on your dreams. They could save your life in more ways than one. — Shaun Roundy

Eventually, the Pat's of this world forgot about you and moved on to someone else. The worst part was that deep down inside, you knew that there was a truth to everything they said. And even if that truth wasn't bad or good, they still owned part of it. They owned a piece of you. — Peter Monn

I'm not a follower. I never have been. But I'll definitely become someone I'm not for a few hours if it'll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention. — J.A. Redmerski

A fool more foolish than most had once jested that even Lord Tywin's shit was flecked with gold. Some said the man was still alive, deep in the bowels of Casterly Rock. — George R R Martin

His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn't seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming. (Jessica) — Shannon A. Thompson

Obsession is a terrible thing as might already imagine. It gives you the sort of courage that makes you do craziest of things — K.J. Kilton

Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time — Oprah Winfrey

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment. — Eleanor Perenyi

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. — Donella Meadows

Donnez-moi la main! I see we worship the same God, in the same spirit, though by different rites. — Charlotte Bronte