Quotes About Tanzania

#1. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was a father to his family. To Tanzania he was a defender of a dream.

Enock Maregesi

#2. Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

Julius Nyerere

#3. In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Julius Nyerere

#4. I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

Emanuel Cleaver

#5. The world is so much bigger than you know, and if you set your mind to it you can go anywhere. It's just a flight away, whether you want to go eat hippo meat in Tanzania, or anything!

Ito Ogawa

#6. In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

Bonnie Raitt

#7. I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

Giles Foden

#8. I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.

Louise Nurding

#9. It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here.

Jakaya Kikwete

#10. From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

Giles Foden

#11. Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don't read because there are no interesting writers.

Enock Maregesi

#12. And now it is boring; here in Tanzania, she is bored. She will die of a crushing monotony before she even has a chance at a high-altitude cerebral edema. -

Dave Eggers

#13. Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe ... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

Jakaya Kikwete

#14. I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Jane Goodall

#15. At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants ... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

Jakaya Kikwete

#16. I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.

Jane Goodall

#17. I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

David Lange

#18. I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

Jochen Zeitz

#19. I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Drummond Money-Coutts

#20. I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

Bill Bryson

#21. I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.

Chelsea Clinton

#22. One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Jan De Bont

#23. Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Charles Bukowski

#24. You go to grab your moments and squeeze them dry. Enjoy them while you're having them. Then remember and enjoy them all over again in your memory. And try to have more good ones than bad ones - - or at least remember more of the good ones.

Jean Ferris

#25. The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. It's on us, the people at the bottom to fix things for ourselves even though it's us who suffer the decisions of the people at the top the most

Kate Tempest

#27. For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze as it bounced back up two feet and fell a second time.

Kristine K. Stevens

#28. No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

Michael Jackson

#29. Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

Friedrich Schiller

#30. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

William Faulkner

#31. Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

Kristine K. Stevens

#32. It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

Ann Rutherford