"The children to whom we read simple stories……" — Maya Angelou
"The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world."
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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 Boon Quotes
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one of 76 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
— Dwight L. Moody
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of…
— Carolyn Wells
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an…
— Mark Twain
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Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have…
— Albert Einstein
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all…
— David Mamet
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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the…
— Garrison Keillor
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
— William Graham Sumner
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I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't…
— Margaret Caroline Anderson
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Dodd-Frank was passed. ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This…
— Mitt Romney
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Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole…
— Joseph Auslander
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