Top 176 Kenya Quotes & Sayings

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

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

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

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

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

The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

I'm sure the government of Qatar is not coming in to grow food for the people of Kenya; it's coming to grow food to sell. If it can also sell to the people of Kenya, well, then good. I think that the moves can be helpful, but I think that the history that Africa knows, as I say in my book, has been a history of exploitation.

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

As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?

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

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.

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.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

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

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.

Many Israelis can get to know what's really happening. I mean, you have soldiers who go and see things. It's not like France and Algiers or, I don't know, England and Kenya or Belgium and Kenya. It's in your backyard. It's much more about willingness, indecision, the inability, or exposure. There is a decision not to be exposed. People can live like five minutes away from it all.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

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.

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 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.

We must unite to build a safe, new Kenya.

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

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

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.

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.

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

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

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally.

President Obama and his wife are going to Kenya. Donald Trump said, 'While you're there, pick up your birth certificate.'

Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born 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.

These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.

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.

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

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.

At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

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 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.

If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

I have been lucky enough to go to all sorts of places - diving in Malaysia, snorkelling with wild turtles in Cuba and dolphin-spotting in Kenya.

If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

When you stand amid the unending vistas of Kenya's Maasai Mara, it's impossible to remain focused inward. Your mind expands to the distant horizons.

The White House announced that President Obama will attend a summit in Kenya this July. When asked if he's ever been to Kenya, Obama said, 'Of course. I was born - no, bored - over there. There's nothing to do in Kenya.'

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

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.

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

Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.