Life Quotes

• A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Life
  • Believes
  • Cannons

• Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Nice

• The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Kiss

• You know, Hillary Clinton's always saying how Republicans don't follow science? Well, they're the ones not listening to the scientists today, because doctors say that at 20 weeks that is a viable life inside the womb. And at that point, it's a life that we have the right to protect, and I think we should protect.

  

  George Pataki
  • Today
  • Science
  • Listening

• When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Future
  • Place
  • Medicine

• You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

  

  Carolyn See
  • Life
  • Story
  • Burden

• Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

  

  Ezer Weizman
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Getting

• Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

  

  Avery Johnson
  • Life
  • Opportunities
  • Measure

• Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

  

  William D. Hoard
  • Happiness
  • Littles
  • Depends

• A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Children
  • Choices
  • Aesthetic

• Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Consequence
  • Error

• We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Room

• There's so much more to life than how you look.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Life

• The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

  

  Bette Greene
  • Students
  • Ineptitude
  • Maestros

• My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Despair
  • Boredom
  • Black Hole

• Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Time
  • Challenge

• I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

  

  Alex Colville
  • Life
  • Dangerous
  • Happen

• I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Life
  • Thinking

• It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Life
  • Change
  • Audition

• Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • End

• If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Way
  • Mac

• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Compressed

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