Top 100 Quotes About Livingstone
#1. I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.
Arthur Scargill
#2. The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
Arthur C. Clarke
#3. When David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls he said, "Sights such as these must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight,"' Hector told her softly.
Wilbur Smith
#4. I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
Trevor Phillips
#5. History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
Desmond Tutu
#6. I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
Stanley Hauerwas
#8. If Livingstone don't keep their discipline the inevitable could happen.
Mark Hateley
#9. I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Ken Livingstone
#10. This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!
Alexander Murdoch Mackay
#11. You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.
Joyce Banda
#13. When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open a barrel of eels and covered both dwarf and zombie with them.
Ian Livingstone
#14. Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
Ken Livingstone
#15. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.
David Livingstone
#16. You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
Ken Livingstone
#17. May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.
David Livingstone
#18. My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.
Ken Livingstone
#20. I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone
#21. If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
Ken Livingstone
#22. It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.
David Livingstone
#24. The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.
Ken Livingstone
#25. I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
Ken Livingstone
#26. And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.
David Livingstone
#27. I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
Ken Livingstone
#28. Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
Ken Livingstone
#29. I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
Ken Livingstone
#30. There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
Ken Livingstone
#34. Hirsute? What does that mean?'
'Hair, you ninny, hair!
Carl Sargent
#35. I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
Ken Livingstone
#36. The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.
David Livingstone
#37. There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.
David Livingstone
#38. I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
Ken Livingstone
#40. The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.
David Livingstone
#41. Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
Ken Livingstone
#42. I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
Ken Livingstone
#43. Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
Ken Livingstone
#44. Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.
David Livingstone
#45. I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
Ken Livingstone
#46. Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren't lying around waiting to be discovered. They're made, not found.
David Livingstone Smith
#47. I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Ken Livingstone
#48. The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
Ken Livingstone
#49. Well, anyway, this'll be easier than knocking an elf out of a tree. Trust me.'
'How many elves have you knocked out of trees, Stubble?'
'Duraden's bones! Have ye never heard of a figure of speech?
Ian Livingstone
#50. There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.
Richard Livingstone
#51. The brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.
David Livingstone
#52. What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
Ken Livingstone
#53. Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
Ken Livingstone
#54. Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.
Ken Livingstone
#56. I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.
David Livingstone
#58. My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
Ken Livingstone
#59. I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.
Ken Livingstone
#60. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.
David Livingstone
#61. I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
David Livingstone
#62. If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
David Livingstone
#63. When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
Ken Livingstone
#65. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
Ken Livingstone
#67. If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
David Livingstone
#68. I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.
David Livingstone
#69. Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.
Ken Livingstone
#70. I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
Ken Livingstone
#71. I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.
Ken Livingstone
#74. Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
Richard Livingstone
#75. I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.
David Livingstone
#76. I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
Ken Livingstone
#77. To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live
Ken Livingstone
#78. Simplicity matters. Especially when it comes to the muscle memory of boxing. That is perhaps rule number one. Simplicity works. Simplicity is repetition. Repetition is function. Boil function down to one action, maybe two. Left or right. Simplicity. Simplicity is really the hardest thing.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#80. Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
Ken Livingstone
#82. I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
#83. I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
David Livingstone
#84. I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
#85. Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. Proverbs 1:3
Livingstone
#86. There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.
Ken Livingstone
#87. Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.
David Livingstone Smith
#88. Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling, and he'd beaten down the riverman to a decent price for conveying himself and Anvar to Lankarn.
Ian Livingstone
#89. I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Ken Livingstone
#90. I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
Ken Livingstone
#92. Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.
Ken Livingstone
#93. It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
David Livingstone
#94. I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
Richard Livingstone
#95. Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
Ken Livingstone
#96. Cultivate a spirit of joy and praise. Not only will you light up your own heart, but the hearts of those around you.
Always look for the good in people. In most cases you will find it.
Loretta Livingstone
#97. Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.
Richard Livingstone
#99. Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
Ken Livingstone
#100. There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.
David Livingstone
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