Cameroon's Quotes

#1. Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.

Roger Milla

#2. . "You think you know me?"
"Jason," I sigh loudly. "I probably know you better than you know yourself unfortunately.

Rachel Spanswick

#3. I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'

Elayne Boosler

#4. Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.

Robbie Keane

#5. You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Giacomo Leopardi

#6. Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#7. I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

Yannick Noah

#8. People want progress, but they don't want change.

Eva Burrows

#9. I see you rolled around in the treasury first," said Darilan.

H. Anthe Davis

#10. I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.

Sanjay Rawal

#11. I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

Joakim Noah

#12. With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it ... it's like you're filming a theater piece.

Adria Arjona

#13. You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes.

Shiloh Walker

#14. All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famous and busy that I only ever find these insults amusing, and chuckle at them good-naturedly before I get on my private jet to be a UN Ambassador to Cameroon, or wherever.

Mindy Kaling

#16. You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless.

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#17. Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Roger Milla

#18. I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.

Charlie Trotter

#19. The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#20. When you're stressed, you eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

Anonymous

#21. Work is God's great investment in you

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Young women in Cameroon have their breasts "ironed" - beaten or massaged by a wooden pestle or a heated coconut shell - to make them less sexually tempting.

Steven D. Levitt

#23. If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

Kang Youwei

#24. Botswana was rich in diamonds, Ghana in cocoa and gold, Morocco in phosphates. There were many countries I was eager to visit and revisit, such as Zambia, with its emeralds and copper, and Cameroon, awash in oil. I could not wait to visit

Jim Rogers

#25. The sun had dipped below the horizon and the sky was almost entirely pencil-lead grey. It felt like the normal world had followed the sun over the horizon too, leaving me in this cold, dark universe that made no sense.

Kendra Leighton

#26. Love can't exist without fear. If the thought of losing someone doesn't scare the shit out of you, then it's not love.

Penelope Ward

#27. The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

Wilson Greatbatch

#28. Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla