Maya Angelou Quotes About War

• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

  Maya Angelou

  Time, Children, War

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

• I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, War, Years

  1974 On the end of World War II. Gather Together In My Name, prologue.

• I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

  Maya Angelou

  War, Lessons, Humans

  "Goal Mapping : How to Turn Your Dreams into Realities" by Brian Mayne, (p. 84), 2006.

• If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

  Maya Angelou

  War, Mean, Long

  Source: blues.gr

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