Lifelong Quotes - Page 2

• Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Believe, People

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• My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Couple, Father

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• Everything is in how you are going to handle it. As a lifelong nightclub comic, I'm ready to handle whatever I have to handle.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Comic, Ready, Nightclubs

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.

  Gary North

  Civilization, People, Hatred

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• You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

  Chris Fabry

  Fighting, Joy, Tenderness

  Chris Fabry, Gary D. Chapman (2011). “A Marriage Carol”, p.69, Moody Publishers

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• Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James

  Dream, Sibling, Life Lesson

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• Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Following Christ, Practice

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• Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Stars, Optimistic

  Barack Obama's Statment on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 27, 2015.

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• I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Commitment, Views

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• I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

  Karen Bass

  Dream, Office, Community

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• To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

  Cat Cora

  Children, Giving, Humanity

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• My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Lying, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 03, 2014

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• The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dream, Mean, Intelligent

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Months, Research

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• My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

  Jessica Valenti

  Party, Commitment, College

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• Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Tasks, Enthusiasm

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• I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

  Leonard Maltin

  Nuts

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• Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

  Dada Vaswani

  Commitment, Permanent

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• Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Home, Land

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• I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

  Eric Kripke

  Urban Legends, Obsession, Folklore

  "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.

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• I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Reading, Biographies, Horror Fans

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• Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old and lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, his license was current and he had had all of his shots. He is survived by two adults, three children, a cat named Daisy who drove him nuts, and his lifelong companion, Pudgy, whose spaying he always regretted, as well as a host of fleas who have gone elsewhere, probably to Pudgy. He will be missed by all, except Daisy. He never bit anyone, which is more than you can say for most of us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Children, Cancer

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• I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

  Elliott Yamin

  Dream, Thinking, Being Real

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• You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Artist, Evolution, Process

  Mary Beth Mckenzie (1987). “Painterly Approach”, Watson-Guptill

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• My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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