Top 40 Kamkwamba William Quotes
#1. I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades.
William Kamkwamba
#3. When planning misfortune for your friends, " he said, "be careful because it will come back to haunt you. You must always wish others well.
William Kamkwamba
#4. My grandmother Rose was a tough woman, so tough she'd built the family home with her own hands while my grandpa worked as a tailor in the market. She'd even built the furnace and molded the bricks herself, which is not an easy job, and even today, not the job of a woman.
William Kamkwamba
#6. I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it.
William Kamkwamba
#7. A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.
William Kamkwamba
#8. Where the world sees trash, Africa recycles. Where the world see junk, Africa sees rebirth.
William Kamkwamba
#9. I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.
William Kamkwamba
#10. Few people realize this, but cutting down the trees is one of the things that keeps us Malawians poor.
William Kamkwamba
#12. No matter how foreign and lonely the world outside, the books always reminded me of home.
William Kamkwamba
#13. Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the bigger they get, until one day they'll rise up and taken you with them.
William Kamkwamba
#14. He then asked he president to stop funding wells and toilets and use the money to buy grain. (Because really, how can you use a toilet if you never eat?)
William Kamkwamba
#15. People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.
William Kamkwamba
#16. The pictures in the library book had provided the idea, hunger and darkness had given me the inspiration, and I'd set out myself on this long, amazing journey.
William Kamkwamba
#17. In better times, we're celebrate Christmas Eve by attending the nativity play at the Catholic church down the road, watching Joseph and Mary and Baby Jesus try to escape from Herod's soldiers and their wooden swords and AK-47s (it wasn't the most accurate version, but it was funny.)
William Kamkwamba
#18. After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it's going to grow up strong.
William Kamkwamba
#19. My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
William Kamkwamba
#20. I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.
William Kamkwamba
#21. I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.
William Kamkwamba
#22. Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
William Kamkwamba
#23. Trust Yourself and Believe, Whatever Happens Don't Give Up ...
William Kamkwamba
#24. BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.
William Kamkwamba
#25. Twenty days," I said, looking at my father. "I'd say you're right." We smiled and stroked the leaves like swaddled babes, enjoying the soft music they created together in the breeze.
William Kamkwamba
#26. Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.
William Kamkwamba
#27. Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.
William Kamkwamba
#28. Whatever you want to do, if you do it with all your heart, it will happen.
William Kamkwamba
#29. I knew witches and wizards were allergic to money because the presence of cash is like a rival evil.
William Kamkwamba
#30. Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
William Kamkwamba
#31. Me and my cousin, most of the time we worked on radios and fixed them. I guess we started because I was curious to understand how radios work. When I was little, I used to think there were small people inside. Most of the time, I was just trying to see the people who are speaking in the radio.
William Kamkwamba
#33. Thinking of them reminds me of a quote I read recently from the great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that says, "If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl." We must encourage those still struggling to keep moving forward.
William Kamkwamba
#34. Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.
William Kamkwamba
#35. I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.
William Kamkwamba
#36. Maize is just another word for white corn, and by the end of this story, you won't believe how much you know about corn.
William Kamkwamba
#37. So many things around you are reusable. Where other see garbage, I see opportunity.
William Kamkwamba
#38. I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
William Kamkwamba
#40. One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.
William Kamkwamba
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