Makeba Song Quotes & Sayings

The law does not come wrapped in a tidy, clearly labeled package. Discerning what the law is requires gathering bits and pieces from a variety of sources, sorting them according to their relative weights and relevance... and combining them into as cohesive an analysis as possible."
Christina Kunz, popular legal writer — WIlliam R. Keates

When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself. — Lao-Tzu

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. — William Blackstone

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991. — Jon Lee Anderson

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. — Christopher Nolan

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat. — Pete Rose

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song. — Miriam Makeba

Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end. — George F. Kennan

Damn Straight-Cody Jackson — Kerry Alan Denney

He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations. — Lorraine Heath

In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land, — Miriam Makeba

Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad.
A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present. — Philip K. Dick