Maya Angelou Motherhood Quotes & Sayings

You can't build Europe against anyone. — Jacques Santer

I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to return to dialogue, to mutual understanding and to an acknowledgement of freedom of opinion. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits,no matter how high they happen to be already. — Lynne Truss

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin. — Maya Angelou

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better. — Adam Duritz

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty. — Michel De Montaigne

The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion. — Bee Wilson

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events. — Christina Baker Kline

I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look. — Chaka Khan

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou

Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in. — Robert Kiyosaki

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish. — Seth Godin

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward. — Richelle E. Goodrich