Jose Rizal Quotes

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Jose Rizal

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• We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Age
  • End
  • 20th Century

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Physical

• Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • May
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Age
  • Myself
  • Athlete

• I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Art
  • Power

• Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age

• What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Age

• So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Childhood

• Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breatheAn odor evoking nothing, absolute. We encounter in the dead middle of the night The purple odor, the abundant bloom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Passion
  • Lies

• If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • She
  • Friend
  • Robot

• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • World
  • Character
  • Impact

• Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Age
  • Passion
  • Childhood