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First Quotes by Maya Angelou
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
- If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you…
- Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who…
- Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.
- One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.
- Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that…
- I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others…
- All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first…
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to…
- Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
- The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to…
- First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better…
- I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and…
- The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but…
- The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
More First Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong