H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.”
“Having books published is very destructive to writing.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.”
“Having both a pet and a book...absolute heaven.”
“Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.”
Source: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered
“Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.”
“Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.”
“Having cameras follow you is something that requires a little personal adjustment, but you actually do begin to forget they're there. It's impossible to maintain that awareness all the time, and when you're going through an emotional or absorbing experience, you really don't have any spare attention to think, "Got to remember that the camera is rolling."”
“Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.”
“Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.”
“Having cancer, fighting cancer, and beating cancer have been THE defining events in my life, and though it was the most terrifying, I know that it has changed me for the better, forever.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.”
“Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.”
“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.”
“Having charged your brain with a cup of coffee, you’re ready to face some more challenges of life.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“Having charged your heart and brain with a cup of coffee, you’re ready to face the challenges of life.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.”
“Having children and raising them will bring new purpose and new life to Heaven. It will not be the end of everything, but the beginning!”
“Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.”
“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.”
Source: Living Out Loud
“Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.”
“Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it to start with-so that already changes things. My mind is not completely mine anymore. I used to be able to concentrate and achieve things. Now I find it much harder to focus, because it just seems that half your brain doesn't belong to you anymore. My kids are still little. Maybe it will change more when they're older, but I doubt it.”
“Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.”
“Having children has made me incredibly efficient. It's hard to leave them in the mornings, but I'm extremely productive during the day, knowing I want to be fully focused on them when I get home.”
“Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.”
“Having children is a ruinous decision. It's like having stocks, when they lose their value you won't find a buyer. No one listens to the Pope and the President of the Republic, when they exhort Italians to have children, and that's because the cost is high, the risks immense, and the benefits few.”
Source: Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
“Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.”
“Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.”
“Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.”
“Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”
“Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.”
“Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.”
“Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.”
“Having children is the greatest sin in this country, according to Madam X. After a series of experiments, Madam X has concluded that having children is a very great sin. Hate is an evil disease.”
Source: The Wig: A Mirror Image
“Having children is what a woman is born for, really.”
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”
“Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.”
“Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.”
“Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.”
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
“Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.”
“Having children really changes your priorities.”
“Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It's a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I've ever taken on.”
“Having children with someone is the real bond.”
“Having children, you have so much more structure in your life. The open-endedness of being a single woman is gone, you know? It's sort of like, from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. the kids are going to take a nap, so now I have time to sit down and write the lyrics, or once they're put to bed, I have a few hours to focus on those things. I need that. It's a very strange process, really - I can never predict what's going to happen. It always feels uncomfortable and awkward.”
“Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.”
“Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?”
Source: An American Childhood