Quotes about Relationships
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou
You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.
— Maya Angelou
remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.
— Maya Angelou
I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? Mother
— Maya Angelou
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
— Maya Angelou
You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.
— Maya Angelou
They also told me how I got the name "My." After Bailey learned definitely that I was his sister, he refused to call me Marguerite, but rather addressed me each time as "Mya Sister," and in later more articulate years, after the need for brevity had shortened the appellation to "My," it was elaborated into "Maya.
— Maya Angelou
Long after people forget what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. —Tim Sanders
— Maya Angelou
I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?
— Maya Angelou
I am Lady, and still your mother.¨
— Maya Angelou
Human beings are like some plants. If we pause a few seconds in our journey, we begin setting down roots, tendrils that entangle other people as we ourselves are entangled.
— Maya Angelou
Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma.
— Maya Angelou