Life Didn't Come With Instructions Quotes

#1. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Cornelia Funke

#2. I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

Ezra Taft Benson

#3. I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#4. I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

Michael Nyman

#5. There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

Lars Von Trier

#6. Well, you did it," I congratulated Patch. "I'm as trained as I'll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you my personal trainer from day one."
A rogue smile surfaced, slow and wicked. " No match for Patch.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#7. All of which raises the question, how did we go from Character to Personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way?

Susan Cain

#8. I'm pretty sure those're my balls you've found," I said to the man searching my pants. "You gonna count 'em out now? Because I'll save you the trouble. There's two.

Nenia Campbell

#9. I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.

Rick Perry

#10. This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Grace Lee Boggs

#11. I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

Paul Engle

#12. T's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.. it's so lonely.

Anthony Kiedis

#13. Truth is grounded in God's Word, not our works.

John Piper

#14. Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

Irving Kirsch