Quotes About Jomo Kenyatta

#1. 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

#2. You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your education would prepare you for, and I just knew that segregation was wrong, and I knew that I should not be going along with it. That I should resist it.

Diane Nash

#3. The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions - and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.

Ken Wilber

#4. I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Djuna Barnes

#5. The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

Brian Tracy

#6. I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Inspiration means that you don't have to figure things out, or think about them. Ideas and answers pop into your head and the energy carries you forward, if you allow it. Planning ... is a way of ritually killing inspiration, which transcends the need for planning.

Chuck Spezzano

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

Jomo Kenyatta

#10. More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.

Baris Gencel

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

Jomo Kenyatta

#12. 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

#13. Pet, I give you permission to be as vocal as you wish, because I am going to blow your mind in a few minutes and I want to hear how much you enjoy the ride.

Kallypso Masters

#14. I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

N. Murray Edwards

#15. 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

#16. Unity cannot be taken for granted.

Jomo Kenyatta

#17. 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

#18. What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

Frederick Douglass

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Jomo Kenyatta

#22. Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg