Quotes About Life

Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life.

Unhealthy family patterns—such as willingly spending your life working hard without any compensation— can end up running your life, leaving behind powerful and long-lasting effects that you and those around you must eventually reconcile.

I'm busy all the time.

For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.

In the rush of busy life, we don't get enough of time to enjoy with our children.

I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.

By the time I'm wrinkly and old, I'll have kids and grandkids that I'm watching grow up. I'll be proud of what I've achieved in my life, and I'm not going to worry about my looks so much.

I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.

My dad had already retired by the time I was born.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I'm doing very well outside the cage.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

Life ain't a piece of cake for me.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

I love the way of life out in California, and I've made a lot of friends out there. The food is amazing.

My first memories of life were Californian.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmonton, but I definitely knew that music was what I was going to do with my life.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.