Orson Scott Card Quotes

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.

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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• The life of an actor can be very enviable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Very

• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Life
  • You
  • Whatever

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Nice

• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Lights

• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Life
  • Today
  • Change

• After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Star
  • Beginning

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Life
  • American
  • Small

• Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long

• America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Children
  • America

• The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Work
  • Real
  • Water

• I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Relatability

• You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life