Trees From Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings

When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do? — Maya Angelou

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. — Dave Eggers

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. — Maya Angelou

In order to indoctrinate their followers and secure obedience, religions frequently tear people down, creating an emptiness that must then be filled with Jesus, Allah or any other deity. People are told that they are inherently bad or sinful and that the only way to become good is by giving over control of their lives to faith. As there is no evidence that any of that is true, religion, in effect, is creating an imaginary problem simply so that it can sell an imaginary solution. — Armin Navabi

Come lie down with me, I've longed for nothing as much as your arms these past days. — Jeaniene Frost

What Makes you Different Makes You Beautiful — Mehwish Khan

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid. — Ellar Coltrane

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots. — Maya Angelou

I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen. — Bruce Willis

The doors of opportunity don't stay open long enough for us to ignore them today and return tomorrow. They shut for reasons we never imagined." Ray White — Ray White

...children are birds, and a mother is the tree. No matter how far the birds fly, they always long for the tree to rest on.
But a tree will fall...
Even if it falls or dies, its roots delve deep into a child's heart and nourish it with her eternal thoughts. — Weina Dai Randel

Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and taking them apart again, fitting the pieces together another way until it feels right, as right as she can make it feel. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain. — Rabih Alameddine

Time means nothing."
~The Time Traveller's Wife — Audrey Niffenegger

Cigars are society. They are the food you eat and the bed where you sleep. They are the clothes you wear and the shoes on your feet. Cigars are, at the very least, responsible for everything you and I have. — Mark McGinty

Critics build nothing — Robert Moses

You said yourself the guy looks like he pleasures himself to pictures of Rahm Emanuel. — Richard Castle