Masai Quotes:

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

- Louis Leakey

topic: Sick, Masai, Clinic

There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

- Masai Ujiri

topic: Basketball, Player, Mind, Masai, Raptors

But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

- Beryl Markham

source: Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

topic: Integrity, War, Knowing, Masai

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

- John Galliano

source: "Girl Least Likely To: 30 years of fashion, fasting and Fleet Street". Book by Liz Jones, July 4, 2013.

topic: Book, Tourists, Culture, Masai

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938)

topic: Feet, Snow, House, Masai, Kilimanjaro

I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.

- Mark Burnett

topic: Horse, Zebras, Children, Masai, Great Times

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

- Peter Diamandis

topic: Warrior, Technology, Years, Masai, President Reagan

I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

- Yann Arthus-Bertrand

topic: Air, Order, Years, Masai, Air Balloons

The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren

- Sarah Vowell

topic: Reading, Warrior, Men, Standing There, Lincoln Memorial