Top 100 All My Life Quotes
#1. I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#2. I shall dance all my life ... I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
Josephine Baker
#4. Don't tell me! You're just rubbing it in! It serves me right, though: it was vanity that kept me from coming, egoistic vanity and base despotism, which I haven't been able to get rid of all my life, though all my life I've been trying to break myself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#5. I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
Winston Churchill
#6. I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
Salman Rushdie
#7. All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.
John Burnside
#8. I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.
LeAnn Rimes
#9. All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.
Cassandra Clare
#10. It's insane. I've had girls throwing themselves at me since the hype started. Now the film's out I can't walk down the street without being pounced on. All my life I've hated crowds. Now I only have to step outdoors and I'm at the centre of one. It's very cool but it's very uncomfortable too.
Robert Pattinson
#11. I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II
#12. I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
Camille Claudel
#13. I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.
Ryan Adams
#14. All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
Charles De Lint
#15. I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.
Saul Perlmutter
#16. I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.
James Goldman
#17. I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#18. I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#19. I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks, and then at once thinks something else. I cannot think something else, I think one thing all my life. God has tormented me all my life.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#20. All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.
Paul Harvey
#21. I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.
Tyler Perry
#22. All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom
Andrew Pyper
#23. In all my life," Ernestino said, "I have never heard a voice like that. God has touched you, Signore. But sing while you can, because it won't be long before those high notes leave you forever.
Anne Rice
#24. On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
Richard Serra
#25. All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state?
Leila Aboulela
#26. All my life, I've found it difficult to advocate for myself, to ask for what I want. I fear burdening people so much.
Jessica Knoll
#27. I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
Patricia Briggs
#28. I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
Olga Korbut
#29. And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.
Oscar Wilde
#30. I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
Erica Jong
#31. I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
Elizabeth Bishop
#32. We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
Muhammad Yunus
#33. All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy who everybody in the family regarded as disagreeable at best. But I loved him intensely. He was wonderful to me.
Scott Turow
#34. All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.
Holly Near
#35. I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.
Matt Nathanson
#36. My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'
Ron Reagan
#37. I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
Philip Johnson
#38. Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#39. I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.
Christopher Lee
#40. I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.
Carlos Beltran
#41. There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
Louis Armstrong
#42. All my life, people have been underestimating me.
Hugh Carey
#43. I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
Louis Zamperini
#44. I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
John Caudwell
#45. I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
Fantasia Barrino
#46. I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
Tyson Fury
#47. I'm thirty-six, and I'm in love for the first time. I don't know what that says about me. Maybe that I've waited for you all my life.
Rachel Gibson
#49. People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.
Ben Hogan
#50. I often think, why did I let her in? Didn't I know she was bad? And I did, of course I did, but I also knew that I couldn't keep that door shut all my life, just because it was dangerous, just because there was a chance of getting hurt.
Kathryn Wesley
#51. I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.
Tommy Chong
#52. I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.
Josh Beckett
#53. All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.
William J. Clinton
#54. Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
Kiana Tom
#55. It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
Merle Haggard
#56. I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
Sophia Loren
#57. I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.
Mem Fox
#58. I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.
Claire Bidwell Smith
#60. All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.
Jerry Orbach
#61. I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.
Gary Neville
#62. I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life.
Virginia Woolf
#63. Having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.
David Levithan
#64. All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Harry S. Truman
#65. Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She
Stephen King
#66. I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.
Deepak Chopra
#67. The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
Armand Hammer
#68. There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.
Samuel Chadwick
#69. That we were slaves I had known all my life
and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold
but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.
Robert A. Heinlein
#71. The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher Hitchens
#72. I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.
William Blake
#73. All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
Harvey Weinstein
#74. In all my life - though surrounded by many people - I had not had a single satisfying, sustained relationship with another human being and, not having had any, I did not miss it. I made no demands whatever upon others.
Richard Wright
#75. Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather
#76. I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.
Stephen King
#77. What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.
Steve Wozniak
#78. All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
Jose Mujica
#79. My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!
George Harrison
#80. All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.
Tori Kelly
#81. I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.
Marion Davies
#82. It's because you're different. You can't live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have to find your own rules. All my life I've been running away from their rules, Hayat. All my life. You will be the same.
Ayad Akhtar
#83. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
#84. All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham
#85. Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#86. All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.
1981 re: cause of autism
Bruno Bettelheim
#87. You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.
William Carlos Williams
#88. I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!
Bonnie Bedelia
#89. All my life I knew I would have a big business. That's what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.
Paul Orfalea
#90. In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
Norodom Sihamoni
#91. All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones
#92. All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often.
Nick Hornby
#93. ...Be what you like'
'Some people, sir,' remarked Lamps, 'are sometimes what they don't like.'
'Nobody knows that better than I do,' sighed the other. 'I have been what I don't like, all my life.
Charles Dickens
#94. I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.
Poe Ballantine
#95. All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.
Karen Marie Moning
#96. I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.
Katie Leung
#97. Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena
Paulo Coelho
#98. I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.
Bella Thorne
#99. I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.
John Forsythe
