Top 100 My Life Has Been Quotes
#2. My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
Dan Fogelberg
#3. My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.
Jennie Finch
#4. My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
#5. People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
Tina Turner
#6. Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
Peter Landesman
#7. The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
Jorge Luis Borges
#8. And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.
Sela Ward
#9. One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.
Billy Graham
#10. The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
Al McGuire
#11. If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.
Rob Lowe
#12. My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#14. I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.
Tony Judt
#15. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.
Lucy Foley
#16. My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
Adam Rapp
#17. My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
Dorothy Allison
#18. Do not pity me, Beatrice De Novo. My life has been as fate dictated, and now I am master of it. Do not waste your regret on the past.
Elizabeth Hunter
#19. My life has been the poem I could have writ
But I could not both live and utter it.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"
George Carlin
#21. Everything good or bad that has occurred in my life has been predictable and inevitable, especially the choices and actions that have made sure I am now utterly alone.
Lucia Berlin
#22. The inclination of my life ... has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
Walt Disney
#23. I grew up in this business ... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet ... and to understand our place in the universe.
Ellen Stofan
#24. I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
Cathy Freeman
#25. My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
Anthony Minghella
#26. I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.
Christine Quinn
#27. The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all
Sarah J. Maas
#28. 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
#29. I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.
Michael Cohl
#30. I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.
Harpo Marx
#31. It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.
Val Kilmer
#32. As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.
Kristin Neff
#33. Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.
Chris Crutcher
#34. My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.
Zachary Taylor
#35. Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.
Johnny Hunt
#36. For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
Jimmy Connors
#37. I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.
Donna Air
#38. My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.
Marie Helvin
#39. My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
Ace Frehley
#40. I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.
Burl Ives
#41. Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding.
Lisa Rinna
#42. For years, my life has been flat. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I've never admitted it before. I'm not depressed, I don't think. That's not what I'm saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It's been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.
Iain Reid
#43. The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.
Henry Jenner
#44. My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
Randy Bachman
#45. Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.
James Cagney
#46. I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.
Ron Hall
#47. Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
Willard Scott
#48. My life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.
Ingrid Bergman
#49. When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself. Sixty
Maya Angelou
#50. My life has been filled with unexpected disappointments and tragedies that led to incredible and rewarding opportunities.
Jenn Sadai
#51. I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.
Marion Barry
#52. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#53. My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
Diana Vreeland
#54. When first discovering a night sky, the eyes may pick out a few tiny stars. Waiting and watching reveals thousands, until it seems there is yet more light than empty blackness. So my life has been, and so it continues.
Sumangali Morhall
#55. My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#56. As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#57. My life has been guided by an unseen piano player, who is actually typing this now.
John Lennon
#58. My life has been a storm of change, Some I did not want, but all I have weathered.
Jason E. Hodges
#59. As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.
Christy Carlson Romano
#60. Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.
Jerry Kramer
#61. The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
Edgar Winter
#62. As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
Ira Sachs
#63. The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.
Maria Semple
#64. To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
Robert Silverberg
#65. My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.
Karen Fowler
#66. Heretofore my life has been calm as a summer's day; but who knows when winter storms may rise, and often I have thought that I was born to know wind and rain and lightning as well as peace and sunshine.
H. Rider Haggard
#67. The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Ray Bradbury
#68. I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
Jane Austen
#69. My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Daniel Ellsberg
#70. My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,
Helen Keller
#72. The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
Adam Weishaupt
#73. I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.
Vonda Shepard
#74. I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
Douglass North
#75. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
Virginia Satir
#76. Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
Patricia Neal
#77. A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
Kim Cattrall
#78. One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.
Deb Caletti
#79. We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.
Gayle Forman
#80. I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry
#81. The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.
M.C. Halliday
#82. Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.
Robert Fulghum
#83. Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful,
J. Cole
#84. I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a misunderstanding, or whether it has a meaning.
Hermann Hesse
#85. My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#86. You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.
William Joyce
#87. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#88. My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#91. The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
#92. Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#93. My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.
John Kluge
#95. My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.
Leah LaBelle
#96. Leonard Woolf: If I didn't know you better I'd call this ingratitude.
Virginia Woolf: I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?
Virginia Woolf
#97. I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.
Colin Trevorrow
#98. I've heard believers speak of the coldness of science and the warmth of their faith. But my life has been warm too, and I have faith. Faith in love, and faith in the inherent beauty of a world that formed itself.
Alexandra Oliva
#99. I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
Sally Mann
#100. I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.
Geoff Rickly
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