Quotes about life
life crazy sane
One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess. Maureen Johnson
life-is
I guess life is full of maybes.
life positive dream
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. Maya Lin
life-is-too-short draws breaths
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw. Maynard James Keenan
life country art
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development. Maya Angelou
life growing-up children
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
life mother grateful
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
life people demand
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.
life simple men
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.
life unseen evidence
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
life mistake ignorance
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
life naked shirts
Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt
life-changing would-be shapes
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape
life long futility
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.
life-changing glasses fifteen
I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.
life choices caged-birds
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
life growing-up years
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.
life dream facts
I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.
life sports country
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.
life cities two
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.
life use birth
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
life-is-like building ends
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
life opposites light
Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
life knowing womens-rights
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
life-changing home acceptance
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
life matter hoping-for-the-best
Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
life sacrifice willing
You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for
life currency
All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.
life growing-up parent
To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents
life communication writing
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
life success loving-life
Success is loving life and daring to live it.
life inspiring art
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
life powerful past
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.