"My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me."

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Source : William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer (2015). “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition”, p.15, Penguin

William Kamkwamba

#Voice Quotes #Tree Quotes #Fowl Quotes

“He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.”
“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”

Source : Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. "James Joyce: The Critical Heritage". Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.
“I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.”
“We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?”
“Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.”
“Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.”
“Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.”
“The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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