Long Life Quotes

321 quotes by 281 authors

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that… — Isaac Asimov
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. — Paul D. Boyer
I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a… — Dan Brown
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my… — Maria Callas
Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life. — Jeanne Calment
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that… — Henry Ward Beecher
The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. — Dwight L. Moody
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words,… — Benjamin Hoff
Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long… — William Shakespeare
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good… — Robert A. Heinlein
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour. — Lord Byron
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for — David Starr Jordan
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. — Andrew Carnegie
Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long — Tom Cochrane
I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of… — Robert Wagner
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread… — Louis Agassiz
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of… — James Madison

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