Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.Miriam Makeba
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
Jacki Weaver -
I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
Natalie Dormer -
The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
Jack Hanna -
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Harold Bloom
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
Zane Grey -
I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
Pam Grier -
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
Edie Brickell -
No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
R. C. Sproul -
Anchor Turkey in the West and we gain a beacon of democracy and modernity - a country with a Muslim majority - which will be a shining example across the whole of its neighboring region,
Jack Straw
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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
Paddy Ashdown -
Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
Zadie Smith -
I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!
Kai Greene -
I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.
Barack Obama -
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Stephen Fry -
Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?
Saddam Hussein
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When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.
Eric Thomas -
I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.
Miriam Makeba