Life Quotes

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.
– Mike Leigh
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
– Alice Walker
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
– J. C. Watts
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
– Christopher Meloni
My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
– Cheryl Strayed
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
– Meghan O'Rourke
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
– Steve Wozniak
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
– Martin Scorsese
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
– Halle Berry
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
– Denzel Washington
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
– Manuel Puig
My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.
– Maurice Greene
My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
– Florence Welch
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.
– Mindy Kaling
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
– Harry Houdini
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
– Rashida Jones
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
– Richard Rogers
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
– Anne Lamott
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.
– Marco Rubio
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.
– Maria Monk
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
– Sally Hawkins
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.
– Jhumpa Lahiri
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
– Jane Pauley
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
– David Oyelowo
My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.
– Jeffrey Kluger
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
– Benjamin Disraeli
My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.
– Maria de Villota
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
– Shania Twain
My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.
– Domenico Dolce
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
– Alan Cumming
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
– Melissa Gilbert
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
– Zach Braff
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
– John H. Johnson
My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
– Marco Rubio
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
– Ian Hislop
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
– Twyla Tharp
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
– Rachael Ray
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
– Angela Bassett
My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
– Gloria Estefan
My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
– Elvis Stojko
My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
– Mandy Patinkin
My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.
– Emmitt Smith
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
– Jeffrey Donovan
My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'
– Cheryl Hines
My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
– Kerri Walsh
My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
– Nikki Reed
My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.
– Mila Kunis
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
– Martha Plimpton
My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
– Norah Jones
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
– Rory McIlroy
My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
– Candace Cameron Bure
My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.
– Soleil Moon Frye
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
– Paul Simon
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
– Anthony Hopkins
My life was changed in one breath from God.
– Donna Summer
My life needs editing.
– Mort Sahl
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.
– Ryan Sheckler
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
– Bret Michaels
My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.
– Joey Lauren Adams
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
– Maurice Sendak
My life has run from misery to happiness.
– Loretta Lynn
My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.
– Sean Hannity
My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.
– Trey Anastasio
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
– Amy Winehouse
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
– Carlos Santana
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
– Tommy Lee Jones
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
– Barbara Corcoran
My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
– Alexander Ludwig
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
– Clara Schumann
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
– Nicki Minaj
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
– Barbara Corcoran
My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.
– Josh Henderson
My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
– Reba McEntire
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'
– Richard Branson
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
– Christopher Hitchens
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
– Marion Jones
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
– Simon Newcomb
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
– Brad Pitt
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
– Lee Iacocca
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
– Barack Obama
My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.
– Jessica Simpson
My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
– Bear Grylls
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
– Rick Wakeman
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
– Olivier Messiaen
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
– Bear Grylls
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
– Marian Wright Edelman
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
– Douglass North
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
– Imelda Marcos
My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
– Carla Bruni
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
– Woodrow Wilson
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
– Ziggy Marley
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
– Beverly Sills
My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
– Rick Perry
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
– Paul Ryan
My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
– Gary Sheffield
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
– Andy Serkis
My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
– Christian Bale
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
– Robert Carlyle