Quotes About Nairobi

#1. I didn't do very well when I was at school, so my dad gave me the opportunity to travel in Africa. I drove from London to Nairobi. It was incredible.

Sean Pertwee

#2. The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.

Romeo Dallaire

#3. One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

Iman

#4. I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're certainly aware of the iPhone.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#5. I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.

Lupita Nyong'o

#6. In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#7. I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.

D. B. Weiss

#8. Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

Jenny Shipley

#9. Paying for a taxi ride using your mobile phone is easier in Nairobi than it is in New York, thanks to Kenya's world-leading mobile-money system, M-PESA.'1 This was the opening paragraph in The Economist's article of 27 May 2013, 'Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money?

Victor Kgomoeswana

#10. South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.

Jann Klose

#11. I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind.

Serinda Swan

#12. A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable.

Lauren Beukes

#13. Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

Loretta Lynn

#14. Creativity is not a gift, it's a mindset that you practice

Natasha Tsakos

#15. I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.

Paul Tsongas

#16. Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

James Surowiecki

#17. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor

#18. People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

Maisie Williams

#19. Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

Gichin Funakoshi

#20. Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

Margaret Thatcher

#21. I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

Adriana Trigiani

#22. NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

Arundhati Roy

#23. Are airplanes always like that? So full of people?

Maggie Stiefvater