Lumumba Quotes

#1. We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

#2. Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.

PLO Lumumba

#3. My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Richard Powers

#4. A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Patrice Lumumba

#5. The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

PLO Lumumba

#6. You know who really killed Lumumba?" Master said, looking up from a magazine. "It was the Americans and the Belgians. It had nothing to do with Katanga.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

#8. I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.

Jojo Moyes

#9. Only a sense of humor can help each of us face those great unanswerable questions: Why was I born? Why am I here? Why must I die? What must I do to make my life a triumph? -

George Sheehan

#10. I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#11. We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

#12. If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#13. Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Philip Greenspun

#14. The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Noam Chomsky

#15. I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

#16. I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

Yani Tseng

#17. Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

PLO Lumumba

#18. We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

Jeff Galloway

#19. I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo

Thom Yorke

#20. At my audition, I had one of those anxiety visions where you do something totally crazy in your mind, just to torture yourself with the possibility, just to wonder what would happen if you actually did it.

Rachel DeWoskin

#21. Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

Dierks Bentley