Top 100 Quotes About Maya
#1. Maya, having recently made her way through The Lord of the Rings trilogy, names it Bag End. "Because it looks as if a hobbit might live here." A.J. kisses his daughter on the forehead. He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd.
Gabrielle Zevin
#2. The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
Maya Angelou
#3. Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.
Maya Angelou
#4. That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says.
"Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.
Gabrielle Zevin
#5. The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God's will just by breathing.
Maya Banks
#6. He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.
Maya Banks
#7. Maya wrapped one leg around him, writhing against him as she threaded her fingers through his hair and held him to her, urging him on.
"Never stop touching me that way," Maya rasped.
Sara Humphreys
#9. Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.
Maya Banks
#10. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
#11. Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
Maya Angelou
#12. I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young,
Maya Angelou
#14. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
Michael N. Castle
#15. At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou
#16. The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
#17. You're my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I've loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but 'tis true that I wouldn't change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.
Maya Banks
#18. Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.
Maya Tiwari
#19. This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.
Maya Angelou
#20. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.
Maya Banks
#21. Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Maya Lin
#22. When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
Maya Angelou
#23. Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.
Maya Angelou
#24. All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.
Maya Angelou
#25. While some American education experts may say that all learning should be 'fun,' I personally believe that the word "fun' is the wrong word to use. Learning should be challenging, meaningful, rigorous, engrossing, interesting, and satisfying.
Maya Thiagarajan
#26. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah.
Maya Banks
#27. I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.
Maya Rudolph
#28. The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya Angelou
#29. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.
Maya Angelou
#30. Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.
Maya Angelou
#31. Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
Maya Angelou
#32. They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.
Maya Angelou
#33. Amazing what happens when you just ask, isn't it?
Maya Banks
#34. Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Maya Angelou
#35. I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya Angelou
#36. Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya Angelou
#37. If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
Maya Angelou
#38. Pink is you. Definitely your color.
Maya Banks
#39. Perhaps one day the man in the black jacket will think about this too: why he only wondered if it was Kevin or Amat who was telling the truth. Why Maya's word wasn't enough.
Fredrik Backman
#40. This is the time to remember that I'm the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.
Maya Van Wagenen
#42. Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
Maya Angelou
#43. Never be afraid to tell me anything," he whispered against her hair. "No matter how ashamed you might feel. I'll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.
Maya Banks
#45. There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
#47. The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.
Maya Angelou
#48. Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,
Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;
- 5 -
Munindra Misra
#49. One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.
Maya Banks
#50. My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Maya Lin
#51. I'll take your body, but I want your heart, Maya.
Meredith Wild
#53. I'm glad to hear that what belongs to me can't be swayed by the pretty words of others.
Maya Banks
#54. It's my brothers"-Nathan croaked
"I don't give a fuck if they're your sisters"- Swanson said "I'll kiss them just the same
Maya Banks
#55. I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
Maya Angelou
#56. You want me to do something ... tell me I can't do it.
Maya Angelou
#57. Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
Maya Angelou
#58. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency
Maya Angelou
#59. Sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself. When
Maya Angelou
#61. People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
Maya Angelou
#62. The problem with longstanding friends
they felt utterly free to go too far and to enjoy every step they took over the line.
Maya Rodale
#63. We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.
Rochelle Maya Callen
#64. To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents
Maya Angelou
#65. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya Angelou
#66. I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
Maya Angelou
#67. In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Maya Angelou
#68. Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
Maya Banks
#69. I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.
Maya Lin
#70. Cotton rows crisscross the world
And dead-tired nights of yearning
Thunderbolts on leather strops
And all my body burning
Sugar cane reach up to God
And every baby crying
Shame a blanket of my night
And all my days are dying
Maya Angelou
#71. I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.
Maya Angelou
#72. You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
Maya Lin
#73. And that makes Mia sad. But it's okay. She'll have Bethany. And me.
Maya Banks
#75. Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.
Joseph Campbell
#76. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.
Maya Angelou
#77. Do you know how impossible it is to ignore that woman? I'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to notice.
Maya Banks
#78. Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Maya Angelou
#79. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
#80. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
Maya Angelou
#82. It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.
Maya Angelou
#83. I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.
Maya Angelou
#84. Inch by inch, they chipped away until soon there would be nothing left to salvage.
Maya Banks
#85. I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
Maya Angelou
#86. Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt
her or pleasure her in a way no other man
could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her
Maya Banks
#87. I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.
Maya Banks
#88. The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. - Maya Angelou.
Jasinda Wilder
#89. Then go to my room where solitude gaped whale-jawed wide to swallow me entire.
Maya Angelou
#90. She's not just any woman. I don't know, man. She hits buttons that a woman have never pushed for me.
Maya Banks
#91. Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.
Maya Angelou
#93. Talking to the animals? Is that really how you want to start your day?"
"Manny was helping me get my life back on track. We're discussing life goals and career choices."
Maya held up her hands. "Not before coffee, I beg you.
Susan Mallery
#94. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
#95. Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Curly
Maya Angelou
#96. What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.
Maya Angelou
#97. You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
#98. The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
Maya Angelou
#99. In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya Angelou
#100. The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity.
Maya Angelou
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