The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Quotes

“Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the bigger they get, until one day they'll rise up and taken you with them.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“I remembered a parable that Jesus told to the disciples, the one about the sower of seeds. The seeds planted along the road get stepped on and damaged, those planted in rocky soil can’t take root, and the ones planted in the thorns get tangled in the barbs. But the seeds planted on fertile soil live and prosper.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“So many things around you are reusable. Where other see garbage, I see opportunity.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“Where the world sees trash, Africa recycles. Where the world see junk, Africa sees rebirth.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“Whatever I decided to do, this lesson would always stay with me: If you want to make it, all you have to do is try.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“We all laughed about it now, because it was only during the better times that we truly acknowledged the bad ones.”
― William Kamkwamba;Bryan Mealer, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“Touring the city, I began to wonder how Americans could build a skyscraper in a year, but in four decades of independence, Malawi couldn't even bring clean water to a village. We could send witch planes into the skies and ghost trucks along the roads, but we couldn't even keep electricity in our homes. We always seemed to be struggling to catch up. Even with so many smart and hardworking people, we were sill living and dying like our ancestors.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“I did become homesick, and whenever that happened, I'd hide away in the school library, where the books filled rows and rows of shelves. I'd find a chair and study my lesson books in geography, social studies, biology, and math. I'd lose myself in American and African history, and within the colorful maps of the world. No matter how foreign and lonely the world was outside, the books always reminded me of home, sitting under the mango tree.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“Since we had no money for a real ball, we made our own using plastic shopping bags”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“Ama ne yapmaya karar verirsem vereyim, öğrendiğim bir dersi kesinlikle uygulayacaktım: Başarmak istiyorsan, yapman gereken tek şey çalışmaktır!”
― William Kamkwamba, Rüzgarı Dizginleyen Çocuk

“I want you to know that your ambitions are just as important and worth achieving, however big or small. Often people with the best ideas face the greatest challenges—their country at war; a lack of money or education or the support of those around them. But like me, they choose to stay focused because that dream—as far away as it seems—is the truest and most hopeful thing they have. Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the bigger they get, until one day they’ll rise up and take you with them. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Andrea Barthello & Bill, Sam, Mike, and Ramsay Ritchie—thank you for welcoming me into your family.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“Ten strokes of genius complemented with a stroke of luck”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“El sueño de un niño puede cambiar el mundo entero.”
― William Kamkwamba, El niño que domó el viento

“Si lo haces de corazón, puedes lograr cualquier cosa que te propongas.”
― William Kamkwamba, El niño que domó el viento

“porque solamente en los buenos tiempos puedes hablar con franqueza de los malos.”
― William Kamkwamba, El niño que domó el viento

“microscopes”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

“so”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind