William Kamkwamba Quotes

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

William Kamkwamba

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• Fields
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• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

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• Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

  

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• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

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• I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

  

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• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

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• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

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• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

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• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.

  

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• Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

  

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• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

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• A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

  

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• I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.

  

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• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

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• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

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• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

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• To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

  

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• Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

  

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• I would never come out and say I was gay, because I'm not gay. And there's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that that comes from anybody who is constantly wishing they were in the minority, you know, and constantly wants to be kind of fighting everybody off, you know?

  

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• It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

  

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• Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

  

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• I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • Father
  • Accepting
  • Fields