John Kiriamiti Quotes

The Swahili say that what you are not taught by your parents, you'll be taught by the world.

I have prepared everything for them and the day after tomorrow they will join St. Theresa's school.

If you don't stop the affair between you and Miss Makarios, I'll do a thing you'll regret for as long as you live.

That's how things go. When you need sunshine, you get rain and when you need rain, you get sunshine.

Sometimes, even the oddest thing can turn out to be funny.

The skyline, gawking with architectural indigence, towered over the bowl like a row of stained, gap-toothed jawbones.

When things are as they are now, one is better off with his mouth shut.

If you really feel you want me, talk to my mother as a gentleman.

Prostitutes and criminals are alike. They like boasting much though I don't like it.

Shall I ever want to leave this place where I feel so secure and go back to a Kenya where every cop would draw his gun wherever I was sighted?

If I don't take care, the next time you hear about me, I'll be rotting in prison, which I am sure you wouldn't like.

You are not going to stop anywhere under any circumstances unless I tell you so.

It is very hard to find you a decent job here. You know they speak French and everything here in the offices is run in French.

You look very bright these days Jack, very smart too. Seems as if your uncle spares you a lot of pocket money.

When you have stayed in prison for as long as that, you become somehow mentally confused.