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

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Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. – Miriam Makeba

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

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Home
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

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Nature
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. – Franklin Adams

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We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We dont buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time. – Cat Cora

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Middle age is when youre sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isnt for you. – Ogden Nash

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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens

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