Edmonia Lewis Quotes

Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.

Edmonia Lewis

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Victor Hugo
- Life
- Time
- Short
I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

Samantha Morton
- Life
- Attention
- Care
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

Sam Taylor-Wood
- Life
- Future
- Day
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Edmund Hillary
- Life
- High
- Pretty
Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

Ireland Baldwin
- Life
- Career
- Acting
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Yehuda Berg
- Life
- Alone
- Understanding