Section: «Quotes»
A quotation (from Latin citare, citatum - to proclaim, to cite) is a verbatim excerpt from some text of someone's speech; the author's words, cited to support it with authority or simply to illustrate one's own expressed thought, or to criticize the quoted thought itself.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings..
© Maya Angelou
...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I'm not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head..
© Maya Angelou
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side..
© Maya Angelou
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning..
© Maya Angelou
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
© Maya Angelou
Share secrets with those who have no friends, befriend those who have many friends. Avoid someone who is careless, be with someone who is sad.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
The glory is a high rock. The snake gets to it with a creep, but the falcon reaches it with a single wingspan.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
If you want to be rich and learn the trade. Wealth drains away with time, but skills do not.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Laugh enthusiastically, genuinely glad when you see a person who has found a good, has done good, worthy of emulation. A good example teaches..
© Abai Qūnanbaev
If your knowledge cannot convince you, don't think that someone else will appreciate it. If you don't value your knowledge, how can you expect others..
© Abai Qūnanbaev
By the love of God, the nations are created, and you love them like yourself. Love people as brothers, like freedom, then truth and life are for you.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
The man who challenged a hundred people and misled them is infinitely inferior to the man who guided one person to the way of truth.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
If I were in power, I would cut off the tongue of anyone who claims that a person is irredeemable.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Knowing another's language and culture makes a person equal to those people.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Pray not that you are the son of your father; pride yourself on being the son of a man.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Who labors only for himself is like a cattle that fill his belly. Decent works for mankind.
© Abai Qūnanbaev