- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.
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- Nov 07, 2020
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no doubt that the search for planets is motivated by the search for life. Humans are interested in whether or not life evolves on other planets. We'd especially like to find communicating, technological life, and we look around our own solar system, and we see that of all the planets, there's only one that's inhabited.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally, we think that finding another Earth-like planet is identifying a site that's at least friendly here for the evolution of life. The primary goal of the Kepler mission is to statistically assess the occurrence of these small terrestrial worlds.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020