Lifetime Quotes

2001 Lifetime quotes by 1422 unique authors

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. — Philip Wylie
As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap. — Romola Garai
I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career… — Romola Garai
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men… — Mark Twain
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime,… — Miranda July
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. — Craig Claiborne
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime... — Khaled Hosseini
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is… — Jeanette Winterson
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which… — Nick Hornby
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the… — Sonya Hartnett
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. — Ian Mcewan
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against… — Nelson Mandela
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate. — Katharine Hepburn
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . .… — John F. Kennedy
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach
Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in… — Ann Rinaldi
We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. — Richard Bach
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not… — Dodie Smith
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end… — Louis L'Amour
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime. — Neil Gaiman
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you… — Stanley Kunitz
She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to… — Ian Mcewan

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