Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You… — Frank Gehry
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. — Lillian Gish
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English… — Benedict Cumberbatch
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to… — Vera Farmiga
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those… — Hugh Hefner
I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me. — Faith Hill
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. — Johan Huizinga
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is… — Helen Keller
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. — Nicole Kidman
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. — Emma Lazarus
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people… — Rush Limbaugh
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. — Bryant H. McGill
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. — Christopher Morley
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. — Iris Murdoch
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure… — John Piper
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new… — Margaret Sanger
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and… — Tony Snow
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. — Kevin Spacey
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning… — John Steinbeck
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me… — Rod Taylor
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human… — Alfred de Vigny
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. — Debra Winger
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the… — James Wolcott
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom… — James Wolcott

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