Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Miriam Makeba

• Littles
• Swim
• Fishes

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• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • May
  • Humans
  • Littles

• I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Ideas
  • Littles
  • Media

• Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Sun
  • Poverty
  • Littles

• The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Tree
  • Littles
  • Holes

• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Great
  • Power
  • Christian

• Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Father
  • Son
  • Littles

• We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • True
  • Soul

• We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Littles
  • Uncle
  • Aunt

• I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Money
  • Fans
  • Littles

• I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Littles
  • Happens
  • Too Much

• Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Men
  • Littles
  • Wells

• International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Littles
  • Etc
  • IMF

• Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Single

• I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Reading

• The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Knows
  • Littles
  • Causes

• There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Why
  • Fun

• Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Fly
  • Bird
  • Swim

• This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Sea
  • Temptation
  • Swim

• Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Action

• It was the first time she'd seen us in four years. Before the doors opened, I went round looking at the V.I.P. section, and I saw that Madonna had the best table in the house and my mum's table was way in the back. I thought, 'I'm not having this,' so I swapped the signs on the tables around. So, Madonna was at the back, and my mum had the best table in the house, between U2 and R.E.M. And that's exactly how it should be.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • First Time
  • Signs
  • Madonna

• I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Freedom
  • Painting
  • Sculpting

• HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Song

• my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Littles
  • Swim
  • Fishes