Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me. – Benjamin Booker
Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there. – Ahmed Ben Bella
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. – Albert Einstein
My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves – basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life. – Campbell Brown
I think that’s what I love about my life. There’s no maniacal master plan. It’s just unfolding before me. – Cate Blanchett
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen’s card was taken by Norman Parkinson? – Carmen Dell’Orefice
Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life. – Anthony Browne
Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies. – Christie Brinkley
Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I’ll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little – I rarely get the time to do this normally. – Carolina Herrera
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. – Billy Graham
Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something. – Clint Eastwood
If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman to have an abortion? I think the womb that brings forth the black life should matter… Because black lives absolutely matter, what about the babies in that womb? What about that mama? – Alveda King
I’ve behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven’t behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you’re a woman, you’re not in a position to behave as badly, because you don’t have the economic power. – Claire Tomalin
You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football? – Andres Iniesta
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. – Al Lewis
I’m a person that doesn’t have that many goals or plans. I feel like I’m the wind and I blow through life; it’s whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I’m happy and I embrace it. – Bai Ling
I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God’s unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they’ll have confidence to persevere in life. – Amy Grant
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite. – Craig Brown
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic. – Christina Ricci
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world. – Abigail Washburn
I’m into ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ obviously, and I’ve seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on ‘Game of Thrones.’ Weirdly, it wasn’t until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films. – Anna Kendrick
I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it. – Adam Hamilton
A kshatriya woman’s highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. ‘Please don’t take away our precious Soviet Union! – We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!’ – Craig Bruce