Nyanza Quotes

#1. The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

John Hanning Speke

#2. We must pardon everyone because if not, it will be like we will have to punish all the population. We must pardon everyone because all ethnic groups did bad acts. (Thirty-eight-year-old female, Nyanza-Lac)

Peter Uvin

#3. Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. I should have tried to save you," I whisper.

Suzanne Collins

#5. I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.

Stella Young

#6. The only reps you don't grow from are the ones you don't do.

Greg Plitt

#7. Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#8. What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

A.J. Darkholme

#9. Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

George Lucas

#11. I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

Taiye Selasi