Humans Quote by Ama Ata Aidoo Download Open image “Humans, not places, make memories.” — Ama Ata Aidoo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Making memories Memories Memory Nature of man
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
