Catherine Ndereba (Catherine Nyambura Ndereba) Quotes

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Inspiration
  • Cooking
  • Chefs

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Snow
  • Magnificent
  • Leopard

• The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Explore

• Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Like
  • Dreamers
  • Hong Kong

• As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Things

• The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Duty
  • Rewrite

• kk kk ggg ddd wowo well uh, well, no, well sa-ay. I I I know know know I I can but it's ha ha ha hard.

  

  Edie Sedgwick

• I like to learn things slow I like learning alot I like to get it all again and in the end You know you get what you got

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Learning

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Jesus

• The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

  

  Anna Akhmatova

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Poetry

• No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.

  

  Annie Wersching

• I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water

• If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

  

  Catherine Ndereba
  • Sacrifice
  • Gains