I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And ...
For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
We are taught in the Prayer Book to "give thanks to God for His great glory", as if we owed Him more thanks for being what He necessarily is than for any particular benefit He confers upon us… so indeed we do and to know God is to know this.
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.
And there lies the deadly error. Only when your whole attention and desire are fixed on something else-whether a distance mountain, or the past, or the golds of Asgard-does the "thrill" arise. It is a by-product. Its very existence presupposes that y...
What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.
And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!
It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.
The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
