"If I have a monument in this world,…" — Maya Angelou
"If I have a monument in this world, it is my son."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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More Monument Quotes
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
— Pamela Anderson
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
— Baron d'Holbach
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But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for…
— Thomas Dunn English
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The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph…
— Ludwig von Mises
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct…
— Honore de Balzac
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Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
— George S. Patton
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
— Arthur Guiterman
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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land,…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who…
— Dave Barry
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