Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.
It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.
Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.
My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.
Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag! It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word.
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go.
The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met one dry player in 35 years.
A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.
Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
