Quotes About Experience

Our lives are simply bigger than thought.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't.

Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

We are a very colorful family. Everybody knows our mistakes. But I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all or good and bad points.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.