Alive Quotes

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Keep hope alive!

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

There's place and means for every man alive.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.