Becoming Quotes · Page 33

If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.

— Jared Polis

In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.

— Kenny Wallace

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

— Joseph Campbell

“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one.”

— Glennon Doyle

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

— Wayne Rooney

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

— Coleman Dowell

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

— Baruch Spinoza

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

— Lily Tomlin

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

— Joan Collins

There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted…

— Jimmy Cliff

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

— Leonard Read

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do…

— Cynthia McKinney

Becoming an artist and finding my way, I did kind of veer off into different genres and none of them ever fit.

— Sabrina Claudio

Becoming the heavyweight champion is not what I'm dreaming of - it's my goal. It's what I'm planning to do.

— Oleksandr Usyk

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to…

— Kim Shaw

The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It…

— Raf Simons

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this…

— Jon Voight

Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a…

— Pope Francis

If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory.…

— Jim Rohn

I've been doing my job for a long time and I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like…

— Gisele Bundchen

Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses, whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch, patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils, are…

— Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present.…

— Ansel Adams

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily…

— Eric Kandel

We make boundaries so that we can feel separate and move coherently through the world: it's part of our necessary natural growth…

— Julie Henderson

Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped…

— Symeon the New Theologian

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because…

— Nora Ephron

So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You…

— Byron Katie

When you view marketing from the vantage point of the guerrilla, you realize that it’s your opportunity to help your prospects and…

— Jay Conrad Levinson

You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s…

— Neil Gaiman

I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous…

— Mike Ness

Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by…

— Richard Russo

I am so excited about becoming a wife and having kids.

— Angelina Pivarnick

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

— Matt Harvey

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's hard to get past the fact that I'm working with Donald O'Connor and becoming friends with him.

— Ken Berry

I always admired the beautiful stars of Hollywood and dreamt of becoming one of them.

— Sonam Kapoor

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

— St. George Jackson Mivart

If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens.

— Penny Johnson Jerald

Commit to becoming breathtakingly great in all you do. And that's what you'll become.

— Robin Sharma