Jomo Quotes

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

Nicole Hardy

#2. 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

#3. Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#4. When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

Ken Kercheval

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

Jomo Kenyatta

#6. Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

Jomo Kenyatta

#7. The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-seemed inconceivable.

Irvin D. Yalom

#8. I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.

Taylor Swift

#9. Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

Richard Schiff

#10. 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

#11. I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

Jesse Hajicek

#12. 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

#13. Unity cannot be taken for granted.

Jomo Kenyatta

#14. I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

Emeril Lagasse

#15. God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's "yes." Sometimes the answer is "no." Sometimes it's "you gotta be kidding.

Jimmy Carter

#16. 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

#17. What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?

Lora Leigh

#18. You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.

Mark Kelly

#19. I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

Carlton Cuse

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts ...

Raphael Kadushin

#23. Maybe Jethro, Claire, and I can live together in harmony. Maybe she can be my sister wife. Yes. That was the answer. She could have her pretty farmhouse and custody of Jethro on Sundays. I could have him the rest of the week. And if she touched him, I would claw her eyes out. Perfect.

Penny Reid

#24. Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

Jomo Kenyatta

#25. And it's his illusions about what
constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him ... His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

Luke Rhinehart

#26. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

Trey Gowdy