Quotes About Cameroon

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Yannick Noah

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Roger Milla

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Joakim Noah

#14. Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

Bob Dylan

#15. Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

#16. A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion ... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

Samuel Eliot Morison

#17. ...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Veronica Roth

#18. Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

Edward Luttwak

#19. 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

#20. The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Raheel Farooq

#21. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject." The

Frank Herbert

#22. I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#23. Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

Ben Clymer

#24. Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

Claudette Colbert

#25. I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Irwin Shaw