Maya Angelou Quotes

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Kid

• I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • You
  • Nice

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Today
  • King

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Country
  • English
  • Wedding

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Human
  • Differences
  • Studying

• I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Time
  • Music
  • Broken

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Soldier
  • Weapon

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• Many are called but few get up.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Up
  • Motivational
  • Few

• We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

  

  Susan Collins
  • Sacrifice
  • Memory
  • Lives

• My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Great
  • Age

• Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Age
  • Lover
  • Comes