Tanganyika Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!
when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

Ray Bradbury

#3. In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights.

Julius Nyerere

#4. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

James Jones

#5. I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

Neil Patrick Harris

#6. I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#7. Something dangerous was simmering just below the surface. She could feel it.

Connie Mann

#8. He was aggregating memory like a wall against extinction and the little boxes of slides were his bricks.

Peter Heller

#9. They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

Paullina Simons

#10. When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

Gail Collins

#11. Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty;
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.

John Greenleaf Whittier