Living Long Quotes (page 2)

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• memories
• learning
• appreciation

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have. Nicholas Sparks

• enough
• caricatures
• lives

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. John Irving

• time
• enough
• living

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of. Patti Smith

• old
• enough
• smile

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself. Neil Gaiman

• short
• lies
• enduring

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie. Anne Rice

• mother
• she
• mother child

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough. Mitch Albom

• learning
• mistake
• enough

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

• change
• luck
• enough

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOIf I live long enough the luck will change. Ernest Hemingway

• feeling
• saying
• should

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you. Louisa May Alcott

• old
• live
• being old

All would live long, but none would be old. Benjamin Franklin

• expectation
• short
• fairy

When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them. J. M. Barrie

• consider
• to live
• life

Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of... Bill Bryson

• mountain
• wolf
• enough

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf. Aldo Leopold

• learning
• serious
• busy

To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude. Stephen King

• hand
• die
• end

...And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea they living long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews gave way, strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, and the unicorn evils run them through; split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion... Dylan Thomas