Toni Morrison: Birth, life,...

Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
/Toni Morrison/

Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom is...

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
/Mahatma Gandhi/

Andrew Jackson: I feel...

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
/Andrew Jackson/

Clive James: A life...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
/Clive James/

Virginia Hamilton: The meaning...

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.
/Virginia Hamilton/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nor knowest...

Nor knowest thou what argument<br>Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.<br>All are needed by each one;<br>Nothing is fair or good alone.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Charles F. Kettering: My interest...

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
/Charles F. Kettering/

May Sarton: A garden...

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
/May Sarton/

Millard Fuller: It's not...

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
/Millard Fuller/

Jim Bouton: You spend...

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
/Jim Bouton/

George Takei: I spent...

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
/George Takei/

Logan P. Smith: People say...

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
/Logan P. Smith/

Oscar Wilde: It is...

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
/Oscar Wilde/

S. D. Gordon: Easter spells...

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
/S. D. Gordon/

Howard Nordberg: Life is...

Life is a cement trampoline.
/Howard Nordberg/

Robert Frost: A person...

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
/Robert Frost/

Rudolph Valentino: A man...

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
/Rudolph Valentino/

Robert Brault: To the...

To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
/Robert Brault/

Victor Hugo: Each man...

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
/Victor Hugo/

Robert Wilson Lynd: There are...

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
/Robert Wilson Lynd/