"Today, the first & last of every Tree/……" — Maya Angelou
"Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River."
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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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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
— Teresa of Avila
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
— Usain Bolt
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that…
— Moustapha Akkad
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
— Michael Caine
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk…
— Albert Camus
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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