Quotes of: Becoming Keyword

Life had become some kind of profound competition, where my emotional loss was substituted by my professional success. I became a part of what they call the rat race.

Seduced by Murder

Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not stopping to listen: a young man with his heart in his penis.

The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it.

Speak

Because home is where your heart is. And one heart can work wonders when it's beating strongly. And the sweet fairy tales can become true

Sands of Passion

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

Sun and Steel

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

The Setting Sun

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling

He swallowed hard, annoyed at the sudden dryness in his throat. No reason to become all emotional about it now. He had already sold his soul for a chance at vengeance, and there was no getting it back.

Starshine

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The Satanic Verses

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings

Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there’s only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it’s more than symptoms. It’s a nothing that becomes everything there is. And what one sees is only a fraction of the trauma inflicted.

Sykosa

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

Tomorrow, When the War Began

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

A Touch of Deceit

Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.

Through a Glass, Darkly

I did not become a runner to lose weight, I did it to escape my computer

The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers