A Quote by Maya Angelou

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times. — © Maya Angelou
How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But the worst trick time plays on you is just how slowly the worst times in your life take you to live through.
Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.
They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.
Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.
I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.
I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, He is with us. He has promised us that this will never change.
Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There have been numerous times when my career was supposed to be over because of mathematics, you know, age and numbers,' he says. 'How many times can you go platinum? How many times can you rap about the same subject? How many times can you say, 'Oakland?'
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest
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