Life Quotes

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.
– Amy Grant
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
– Amy Grant
The hard times are several years behind me now. This is probably the most peaceful stretch of life I've known as an adult.
– Amy Grant
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
– Amy Grant
Well, I do know that some of the most rewarding, exciting twists in my life are things I never anticipated'such as falling into a music career by accident. I made a tape for my mom and dad; without my knowing it, a friend who had some connections in music called a record company and played it over the phone to them. And then all of a sudden, I was on this path.
– Amy Grant
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities.
– Charles Grassley
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
– Horace Greeley
By 1975, all this had happened: birth control wasn't wrong, premarital sex wasn't wrong, priests leaving the priesthood wasn't wrong, nuns leaving the religious life wasn't wrong. You didn't really have to go to mass every Sunday. You didn't have to go to confession before receiving communion every time. All of these things, which they never really understood and they didn't like, were just swept away.
– Andrew Greeley
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity-the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
– Andrew Greeley
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
– Andrew Greeley
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
– Andrew Greeley
What's more important? Life after death or birth control? What is more important? God's forgiving love or premarital sex?
– Andrew Greeley
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
– Philip Green
As the leader of the Catholic Church, the Holy Father planted seeds of hope in the hearts of millions, helping bring entire nations to the table of peace, and delivering them from tyranny. His ministry to the poor and oppressed was an example to us all, and inspired legions to pursue a life of faith and service. It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to Pope John Paul II, our pilgrim of peace.
– Mark Green
There's an old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. Well, in its never-ending appetite for more of your hard-earned income, the government has not only embraced that old saying, it's taken it a step further. Under the current tax code, Uncle Sam treats death as another chance to raid your savings, taking money that should go to your family and loved ones.
– Mark Green
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
– Julian Green
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
– Julian Green
I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.
– Seth Green
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
– Graham Greene
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
– Graham Greene
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
– Graham Greene
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
– Dick Gregory
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
– Alex Grey
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
– John Grisham
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
– Walter Gropius
I think that the temptation to feel that your entire life has been wasted must be very great for a lot of Cubans.
– Alma Guillermoprieto
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
I was taught by my father, who could not read, that reading is the basis of all education. I learned this painful lesson as I watched him suffer through those simple tasks that all of us who can read take for granted. His inability to read affected every aspect of his life, and mine.
– Kenny Guinn
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
– James Gunn
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
– Woody Guthrie
Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
– Buddy Guy
Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.
– Dan Gable
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
– Mavis Gallant
She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.
– Mavis Gallant
Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
– James Gardner
Must I tell the story of my life again?
– John Garfield
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
– Hamlin Garland
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
– Greer Garson
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
– Jennie Garth
I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
– Gareth Gates
I sing about life.
– Marvin Gaye
Many of the quests for status symbols-the hot automobile, the best table in a restaurant or a private chat with the boss-are shadowy reprises of infant anxieties. The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
– Willard Gaylin
A crossing of a Rubicon in life history.
– Paul H. Gebhard
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
– Larry Gelbart
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
– Sarah Michelle Gellar
The way I look at life - we're all on the Hindenberg, so there's no use in arguing over the window seat.
– Richard Geni
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
– David Gerrold
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
– Jim Gibbons
Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend, but in this case a country.
– Jim Gibbons
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
– L. Wolfe Gilbert
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
– Virginia Gildersleeve
Andrea Chenier plays like an operatic historical novel of the French Revolution. It is not an attempt at a biography of the real Chenier, but a dramatic fantasy based on his life and poems, with a libretto by Puccini's frequent collaborator Luigi Illica.
– Umberto Giordano
Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?
– Todd Gitlin
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
– Charles J. Givens
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
– Arnold H. Glasgow
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
– Arnold H. Glasow
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
– Grace Glueck
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
– Bob Goddard
It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
– Natalie Goldberg
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
– Natalie Goldberg
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
– William Goldman
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
– William Goldman
Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.
– Barbara Goldsmith
On the road to life there are many paths... some twist, some turn, some dip, some curve. As long as you keep your focus, your destination is obtainable.
– Brenda Good
In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.
– Wally Goodwin
The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.
– Ekaterina Gordeeva
Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, iindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.
– Adam Lindsay Gordon
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
– Patrick Gordon
A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
– Bill Gothard
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.
– John Gottman
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
– Topher Grace
I don't talk about my personal life with the press.
– Topher Grace
I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.
– Heather Graham
I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
– Lauren Graham
When I began to write Poldark I drew on this part of my life as in another dimension.
– Winston Graham
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
– Gunther Grass
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
– Gunther Grass
I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II-the other one stunk.
– Sammy Gravano
The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
– Hanna Holborn Gray
There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.
– Hanna Holborn Gray
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
– Francine Du Plessix Gray
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
– David Grayson
Trio life has the wonderful advantage of not being alone, the pleasure of having success with two other people and the solace when you don't have success.
– Bernard Greenhouse
And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.
– Julian Grenfell
If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.
– Joyce Grenfell
A writer should be joyous, an optimist... Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
– George Gribbin
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
– Susan Griffin
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
– Nanci Griffith
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
– Bede Griffiths
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
– Bede Griffiths
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
– Bede Griffiths
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put rum or bourbon in it.
– Lewis Grizzard
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
– Stanislav Grof
Rarely does anyone speak of fear for his own life, as if an unspoken etiquette prevails.
– Jane Gross
Can you imagine the Founding Fathers saying that the major source of authority in your life can make you drop your pants and urinate as a condition of getting or keeping a job?
– Gene Guerrero
There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.
– Bryant Gumbel
Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.
– Adrienne E. Gusoff
Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose and clouding himself in mystique.
– Mel Gussow
I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.
– Jake Gyllenhaal