Quote by Miriam Makeba
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if yo

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you wont get run over. – Miriam Makeba

Other quotes by Miriam Makeba

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Home
Read Quote

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change peoples ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Change
Read Quote

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Music
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that its not normal, but I just dont care. I live once. – Liz Phair

Category:
Age

Theres no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. – Fay Weldon

Category:
Age

Every time I see something terrible, its like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. – Ralph Nader

Category:
Age

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If youve got an adolescent boy, youre in the sweet spot for trouble. – Jeffrey Kluger

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. – Henri Rabaud

Category:
Music

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men – that they never mature and are always just boys. – Krista Allen

Category:
Sports

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. – Patricia Hewitt

Category:
Health