Maya Angelou Quotes About Earth

• We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Air

• No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

  Maya Angelou

  Roots, Tree, Earth

• When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Thinking, Impossible Things

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Maya Angelou

  Forever, Scripture, Earth

• 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

  Compassion, People, Heaven

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey for O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

• Everything costs and costs the earth.

  Maya Angelou

  Cost, Earth

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.34, Bantam

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