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

• 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

• I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Stop

• The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Pain
  • Secret
  • Pleasure

• Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Silence
  • Achievement

• It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Necessary
  • Loveliness
  • Reteach

• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Clean
  • Tasks
  • Housework

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

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Littles
  • Swim
  • Fishes