Lifelong Quotes - Page 8

• All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

  Jane Smiley

  Sports, Art, Horse

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• A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Adventure, Kids, Library

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• I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

  Moby

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

  "I lost my heart in... New York". Interview with Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

  Isaac Newton

  Aggravation, Accomplishment, Celibacy

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• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Memorable, Unique

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• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  New York, Party, Men

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• The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

  Bob Hawke

  Leadership, Mean, Thinking

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• Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Cute, Sweet

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• Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together.

  Joseph Bonanno

  Loyalty, Ties, Together

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• ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.

  Don Kates

  Gun, Law, People

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• I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Running, Children

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

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• Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Cinema, Film, Affair

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• After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

  Page Smith

  Men, Minutes, Over Confidence

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• Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Son, Years, Four

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• When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Commitment, People, Brotherhood

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• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Sadness, Hands

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

  Hope Solo

  Goal, Everyday, Body

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• As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

  Greg Walden

  Black, Green, Forests

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• Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

  Zig Ziglar

  Moving, Class, Life Is

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, America, People

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.448, Penguin

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• And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over; you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Dark, Thinking

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• ... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James Duncan

  Dream, Way, Allure

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.276, Dial Press

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• If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Fighting, Sinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There would be no wedding for me. No bridal hopes. Not with Seth, not with anyone. Those things were lost to me forever. There was only an eternity alone, no lifelong lovers, only those I shared a night with…. - Georgina

  Richelle Mead

  Night, Forever, Would Be

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• Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Children, Essence

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