Top 66 Kenya Quotes

In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, ‘Africa…’ Some guy in a dashiki said, ‘Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it’s you.’

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

We played well in Kenya. We didn’t lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don’t need to change much from that for this tournament.

I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, ‘Africa…’ Some guy in a dashiki said, ‘Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it’s you.’

In Kenya particularly, we have a lot to say – we’re sort of obsessed with politics. We have three nightly news broadcasts, predominantly bad politics.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched ‘The Color Purple.’ I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me – Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

When I got to college, my sister was starting work, and she realized she had two weeks of vacation a year, so she called me and said, ‘Go abroad.’ So right after my freshman year, I went and I studied in Guatemala, and I studied in Kenya, and I studied in Italy, and it was incredible.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year.

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched ‘The Color Purple.’ I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me – Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.

I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn’t know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, ‘I want to be an actor.’ That’s what I did.

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.

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

I’m very much a person that believes that there’s something that was introduced into Kenya and Africa as we know it that has made us despise our bodies.

I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.

I wouldn’t recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley.

There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a favorite of the emperor.

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you’re from Nigeria, then you’re the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.

In Kenya you’ve got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It’s a chance to remember what the world is really like.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.

In Kenya you’ve got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It’s a chance to remember what the world is really like.

If you’d rather spend the holidays with your friends or your dog or digging wells in Kenya than with your family, do it.

When I got to college, my sister was starting work, and she realized she had two weeks of vacation a year, so she called me and said, ‘Go abroad.’ So right after my freshman year, I went and I studied in Guatemala, and I studied in Kenya, and I studied in Italy, and it was incredible.

In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille Without Borders, came from the developing world: Madagascar, Colombia, Tibet, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal and India.

I got a taste when I was in Kenya a while ago of what medical care was in rural Africa. I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations – things I could never believe possible – and then have to try to find solutions.

I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I’m from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

My childhood best friend moved to Kenya when we were still young, and since I missed her so much, I always hoped to visit Kenya.

In the year 2010, Kenya adopted a new constitution. With that constitution, we further secured the human rights and civil liberties of our citizens and entrenched constitutional governance and justice.

I wouldn’t recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Our task will be to advance Kenya’s interests and ensure they are well served.

I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.

I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called ‘The Last Elephant,’ with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he says they want to see you for this project called Candyman. I thought he was joking so I hung up.

I’d like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

Kenya doesn’t have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

We invite all those who have been outside Kenya to come back and join in the rebuilding of our new nation.