Cameroon Quotes:

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

- Roger Milla

topic: Football, Country, Children, Playing Football, Cameroon

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

- Yannick Noah

topic: Usa, America, Years, Cameroon

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Cutting, President, Population, Maternal Health, President Bush

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Country, Care, Female, Welfare Recipients, Cameroon

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

- Roger Milla

topic: Football, Country, Party, Cameroon

Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.

- Roger Milla

topic: Country, Winning, Player, Cameroon, Play To Win

In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.

- Veronika Varekova

topic: Army, Elephants, Government, Cameroon, Poachers

South Africa is not Cameroon. It's a strong economy. I think they should be the first ones setting an example - improving the legal punishments for those that are involved, reinforcing the borders from every angle, meaning that even the diplomatic plane that lands in South Africa should not have the green light to leave without having the plane inspected. Obviously, those guys are often involved. If I get killed for saying that, so be it. That is the fact. There's way too many important people that are involved that don't want to change.

- Veronika Varekova

topic: Strong, Thinking, Land, Strong Economy, Cameroon

I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.

- Sanjay Rawal

topic: Couple, Rights, Agriculture, Cameroon, Different Life

In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: School, Egypt, President, Muammar Gaddafi, Mubarak

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

- Ron Atkinson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fire, Goal, What If, Cameroon

I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Dog, Cat, Differences, Cameroon