Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 206

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
 Ethel Barrymore
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
 Mark Rothko
maturity ... is letting things happen.
 Carolyn Heilbrun
Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane
 Cecelia Ahern
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
 Vita Sackville-West
Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.
 Hugh B. Brown
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
 Geraldine Ferraro
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
 William Hague
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
 Jack Kemp
When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.
 Billy Bob Thornton
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
 Sara Gruen
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
 George Catlin
My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
 Queen Latifah
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
 Erwin McManus
Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, \'I have fallen, but I will get up.\'
Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
 Philibert Joseph Roux