H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How lucky are you! People may or may not love you. However no matter how dark, bad, mad or screwed up are you, your dog loves you.”
“How lucky are you that you are alive today? Don’t forget to live. Choose to live beautifully; it will define your destiny.”
“How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.”
“How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As they meander along the lane that leads to our school all kinds of natural toys present themselves for their diversion. The seedpods of stitchwort hang ready for delightful popping between thumb and finger, and later the bladder campion offers a larger, if less crisp, globe to burst. In the autumn, acorns, beechnuts, and conkers bedizen their path, with all their manifold possibilities of fun. In the summer, there is an assortment of honeys to be sucked from bindweed flowers, held fragile and fragrant to hungry lips, and the tiny funnels of honeysuckle and clover blossoms to taste.”
Source: Village Diary
“How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.”
“How lucky I am having something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
“How lucky I am to be destined for you, In this demented and untamed life.”
Source: Strings of Fate
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
“How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.”
“How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.”
“How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).”
“How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.”
Source: Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896
“How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.”
“How lucky our world is to have the Moon! How lucky we humans are to have the Moon! And finally how lucky our Moon is to have a view of the deep blue Earth!”
“How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.”
“How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.”
“How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds”
“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!”
“How maddening children are! When I look back to the past, what do I remember? Silly little things about local sewing women, the bread twists I made in the kitchen, the smell of Colonel F.'s breath--and what do I forget? A spectacle that somebody paid a great deal of money for me to see and remember”
“how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?”
Source: What the Dead Know
“How magnificent a lifetime feels once it is held together by something that is worth loving.”
“How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.”
“How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!”
Source: Memories
“How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms”
“How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!”
Source: Discourses on Human Life
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”
Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads
“How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.”
“How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
“How many airports are there in the world?”
“How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!”
“How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?”
“How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.”
“How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?”
“How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.”
“How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.”
Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
“How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.”
“How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“How many bedrooms did you say there are?”
“Six.”
“Which one’s ours?”
“Tonight, all of them,” I say, and stop. She crashes into me answer I catch her, pulling her hair gently, leaning to kiss the hollow below her ear. “And the living room.” My hands slides up under her t-shirt. “And the dining room.”
She bites my lower lip. “The pool table.”
“The kitchen,” I say as she rakes her hand through my hair.
“Show me.”
Source: The Becoming of Noah Shaw
“How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.”
Source: The Beginning of Everything
“How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.”
“How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?”
Source: Point Omega
“How many beginnings were held at bay because we refused to let an ending be an ending?”