Life Quotes

I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too.

~ Drew Barrymore

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

~ Jennifer Aniston

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

~ Tim Tebow

Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing.

~ Luke Evans

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

~ Frank Abagnale

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

~ Joshua Bell

Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

~ Omari Hardwick

I think the first time baby recognises me and smiles is going to be one of the most amazing times of my life, to be honest.

~ Greg Rutherford

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.

~ Florence Welch

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

~ Daniel Craig

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.

~ Scott Derrickson

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

~ James Corden

Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I've met through this. It's who I am.

~ Andrew Solomon

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

~ Laura Schlessinger

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

~ Geri Halliwell

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

~ John Hawkes

My life has changed for the better. It's just amazing. I have to catch myself sometimes. It's like a dream. It's a great thing.

~ Juicy J

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

~ Ethan Hawke

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

~ John Eldredge

I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

~ Julianna Margulies

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

~ Pardis Sabeti

I have this amazing life.

~ Ali Macgraw

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

~ Glen Hansard

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

~ Adrian Grenier

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

~ Raymond E. Feist

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

~ Bobby Moynihan

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

~ Sherry Stringfield

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.

~ James St. James

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

~ Stockard Channing

I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.

~ Amy Landecker

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

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

~ Aristotle

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

~ Alan Cohen

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

~ Louisa May Alcott

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

~ John F. Kennedy

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

~ Voltaire

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.

~ Ali Larter

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

~ Anne Lamott