"Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

James Shikwati

#Children Quotes #Two Quotes #Feet Quotes

“The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.”
“Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.”
“Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.”
“There is a very palpable difference for me between some of my earlier songs and where my later work has gone. If I were making my dream set list for tonight's show, I'm probably not going to include a whole bunch of stuff from the album that I made when I was 23.”
“I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.”
“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused.”
“It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.”
“Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.”

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