Kenyan Proverbs and Sayings
47 Kenyan sayings collected from Kenya — 21 proverbs, 25 quotes, 1 short story. Including Nandi proverbs.
- People who love one another do not dwell on each other's mistakes.Proverb · Kenya
- We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.Quote · Kenya
- I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.Quote · Kenya
- In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.Quote · Kenya
- Seeing is different from being told.Proverb · Kenya
- Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.Quote · Kenya
- Talking with one another is loving one another.Proverb · Kenya
- The house of a person we love is never far.Proverb · Kenya
- It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.Quote · Kenya
- The man may be the head of the home but the wife is the heart.Proverb · Kenya
- To be smiled at isn't to be loved.Proverb · Kenya
- To run is not necessarily to arrive.Proverb · Kenya
- Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.Quote · Kenya
- That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.Quote · Kenya
- It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.Quote · Kenya
- We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.Quote · Kenya
- When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.Quote · Kenya
- When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.Quote · Kenya
- I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.Quote · Kenya
- For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.Quote · Kenya
- Wisdom is wealth.Proverb · 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.Quote · Kenya
- Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.Quote · Kenya