Quotes About Life

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you.

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

I wasn't cast to play the part of a paranormal investigator, like maybe some other shows out there. I believe it, and it's my passion, and this is what I'm here to do in this life. I love it. It was just meant to be for me. It's what I'm doing. This was my purpose.

I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.

I don't want a little Oliver/Olivia parasite running about eating my biscuits. My friends, on the other hand, are procreating like humanity depends on it, and it doesn't.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.