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Body Quotes by Maya Angelou
- Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and…
- The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to…
- As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not…
- Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who…
- Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
- I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we…
- A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he…
- The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine