Top 177 Lifelong Quotes

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

Eyeliner is a lifelong thing. You’ll never get it perfect.

I’ve had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

One of the gifts of ‘Star Trek’ is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

I’m inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I’m good at it.

You get to choose the bond of lifelong friendships, of being there for the darkest and happiest of times.

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they’re a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I’ve also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers – as a writer, they’re a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one’s life.

When I’m 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now – for me it’s a lifelong journey.

I made friends – close, lifelong friends – through my love of ‘Buffy.’

I would like to thank the Jaguars organization for giving me the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing in the NFL.

I felt very fulfilled after doing ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ because I’d always wanted to work with Woody Allen. That was like a lifelong dream, and that was thrilling for me, to enter that world.

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I’ve had bonds for over 50 years with people.

Theatre has always been my passion. It never happened to me that theatre took a back seat in my life. I have never stopped doing it even after joining the film industry, and I intend to perform it lifelong.

We’re building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.

I loved my time at BYU. It was an unbelievable experience with the fans, and the people that I have met, I have lifelong relationships still.

When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Dig for feedback on yourself. You need to have the courage to ask for feedback. You need to learn how you can learn how to grow. It is important that you are going to be a lifelong learner.

In football there’s passion so you have lifelong fans, they bring their sons up, their grandchild comes.

I’m a fairly ordinary person – a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

Some say a model’s tenure is relatively short compared with other careers. But I disagree. Models of all age groups are needed, so I think modeling can be a lifelong career.

I’m a lifelong stutterer.

As a lifelong romance reader, it’s always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

It is a lifelong dream to even play for Villa, but to get to a European final tops it all off.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

I wonder if all love affairs, all marriages, all lifelong partnerships, aren’t in some ways a turning away from the world.

I may be a lifelong ‘downtowner,’ but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

My fitness journey will be a lifelong journey.

I’d love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I’m so in love with him and he’s so in love with me that if I don’t find that lifelong partner out there, it’s okay.

Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.

It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today’s Republicans – and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan – just aren’t up to the task. They’re beholden to ‘my way or the highway’ bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.

In ‘Angels in America,’ I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.

Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.

Eating well is a lifelong priority. My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so now I’m more cautious of how much I eat, what I’m eating, and how often.

I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, ‘colored’ and ‘white’ water fountains, and my mother’s inability to try on a dress in a store because no white woman would buy it if she put it back.

I’ve always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.

It’s my lifelong dream to be able to do what I’m doing. So it feels unbelievable to be even considered one of the women in country.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I… I guess I’ve had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

For Central Virginia small business owners, their business is more than a building, a sign out front, or an income – it’s their lifelong dream.

Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.

Joining WWE has always been a lifelong dream of mine.

I am a lifelong student, and anything I do, I’m all in.

However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.

Some kids have lifelong dreams of wanting to play in the NBA.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic.

The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.

I’ve made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.

My dad’s a lifelong Notts County fan, but it didn’t cross my mind to support his team, and I still feel bad about it. I’m a Tottenham fan because of a 1986 Panini sticker album.

I think when it comes to comics, I’ve been a lifelong comic book fan.

Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It’s like two completely separate planets.

We’ve found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.

For me, shaping and sharpening knives is the perfect mix of a day of metal and woodwork, and seriously scratches my lifelong itch to make something with my own two hands – be it squid-and-veggie ramen or the fiberglass finish on a surfboard.

Playing in the NBA has been a lifelong dream.

She didn’t want to disrupt her family. She didn’t want to lose her family; she didn’t want to hurt her children. She struggled. It was a lifelong struggle for her, being in Bruce Jenner’s body.

There are some people who leave a lifelong impact on you. Gayatri Devi, whom we remember as Princess Ayesha of Cooch Behar, is one such persona I will admire all my life.

It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

I’ve been lucky: my Japanese genes – from my mother’s side – and a lifelong moisturising routine have helped keep me looking good.

I am kind of a lifelong lose weight, gain weight kind of guy. I’m a big guy; I’ve always been a big guy.

I don’t want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

It is a bit surreal for me because I have been a lifelong Birmingham fan, so to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive honour.

Oh yeah, ‘Starship Troopers’ was one of the best experiences of my life, and I made some lifelong friends.

Even though I am a lifelong ‘Doctor Who’ fan, I’ve not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.

Once you learn how to roller skate for ‘Starlight Express,’ it’s a lifelong skill you have acquired.

With a rich history, a world-class interdisciplinary program, and a vibrant student experience, I can’t think of a better location to continue my own lifelong learning than the University of Chicago.

Left unchecked, diabetes can have a devastating impact on your body and can lead to blindness, heart disorder, kidney failure, limb amputation, as well as the possibility of lifelong dialysis.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That’s when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.

Each day, we’re sharpening Iowa’s competitive edge in education and expanding our workplace partnerships with job-ready, STEM savvy, lifelong learners.

‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ is still a fun movie, and it’s still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, ‘Mara, you were five.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I still should have known better!’ I’m a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we’ll always be holding each other’s hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn’t gotten rid of me yet.

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect ‘aptronyms’ – the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams’s term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

When my dad walks into a room, he takes over the room, not because he’s trying to, but because there’s a respect of a lifelong career, and there’s an energy coming from him. He is the alpha male in the room.

It’s shameful to admit, but it’s been a bit of a lifelong affair, and I do now feel I’m as good as it gets. I’m honourable, kind, friendly, warm, intelligent, generous, and I’ve got a good sense of humour.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that’s a lifelong quest.

I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game of volleyball.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska’s great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

March Madness gave me both a lasting confidence and a lifelong bond with both my teammates and opponents.

My trips to Blackpool have created a lifelong love of the seaside.

Someone told me, ‘When you go see Pearl Jam, it’s going to be a spiritual experience,’ and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I’ve been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder’s voice is a million times better live, and I couldn’t believe the passion he put into every single song.

I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur Waley’s translations and Whitman and Robinson Jeffers, who have been lifelong influences on me. My father read Keats to me, and then he read more Keats while I was lying on the sofa struggling with asthma.

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works – it’s called lifelong learning.

The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman. At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.

As a father and as a public school tutor, I’ve seen how a child’s earliest experiences form the foundation for lifelong learning and health. And the science is overwhelming showing how much it matters.

The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history – no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.

I’ve been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.

I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I’d like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

I was an anthropology major in college, and I’ve had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

I’m a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

People come and go, and I’ve certainly had experiences with overbearing figures and conflicts here and there, but for the most part I’ve found the dance community to be really supportive and I’ve formed some lifelong bonds, like with Ethan.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn’t good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There’s nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen’ upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I’m trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn’t let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

While we wait for the scientific data to prove the harms of vaping, let’s protect our middle and high schoolers from a lifelong addiction and a high risk of cancer.

I’ve had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

Every show that I do, I always have a lifelong friend or three that I still talk to that I consider family.

I remain unashamed to publicly declare my lifelong love of watching football. I have watched thousands upon thousands of games simply because I cared solely about which team won.

My barometer for choosing a board member is this: regardless of the business, can I make a lifelong friend?

Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it’s just an everyday lifestyle.

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Fighting at the Olympics has been my lifelong dream, and I cannot believe I am there now.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

I went to boarding school from the age of eight – first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there’s little retreat. That’s why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

My mother, Marnie Fahr Steyer, was a lifelong smoker – up to three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. I like to think that, if Mom were still with us today, she’d be happy with the strides we’ve made to protect our children from the ongoing health crisis of tobacco addiction.

I’m really thankful for the opportunity the Marlins gave me. They drafted me in 2010 and gave me a chance to play in the big leagues. I made lifelong friends there, and I’ve got a lot of great memories.

My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house – he’s nine years older than me.

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

I love being an entertainer. It’s almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin – the man, the college, and the speech.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.

By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews – and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.

The global e-learning online market is on fire. Organizations which feel left out of this non-linear world of opportunities are seeing the need to adopt this new way of lifelong learning.

The two things I’ve been told most often since my career took off – by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between – have been, ‘Don’t ever change, Margot’ and ‘You can’t do that anymore, Margot.’

Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

Usually, you don’t really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

I’ve been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That’s always been important to me and I think it’s always been special.

I’ve always wanted to become an actress. It’s been a lifelong dream, but my family and I didn’t know how to do it.

When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they’re lifelong.

Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay’s desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

An emergency on the labour ward needs to be addressed within minutes or else lifelong disability or even death can follow for the baby or mother.

I was lifelong Democrat just because, well, you know, monkey-see, monkey-do. I was just doing everything that my family was doing.

I’m a mom. I’m a lawyer. I’m a lifelong Michigander.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.

I’m a lifelong strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I’ve owned and used firearms since I was 10 years old.

I think that ‘Floor Sample’ is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of ‘Julia the teacher’ and introduce ‘Julia the artist.’

I’ve never been the type of guy that’s ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I have some lifelong friends I grew up with.

Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that’s what those early years were about – laying the foundation for a lifelong career with a great organization. More than 30 years later, I’m still with Deloitte, and I have no regrets.

The emotional compact between football clubs and their supporters is visceral and usually lifelong.

It’s funny: I’m a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it’s been a solitary thing.

When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.

I’m a lifelong ‘Doctor Who’ fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.

Anyone who’s made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That’s why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of ‘Madden.’

Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco – addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine.

Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven’t read, but over the years I’ve come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

I just have to stop biting my nails. I’ve been on and off that bandwagon so many times. I feel like it’s going to be a lifelong struggle.