Life
“Though very little is known about his childhood, for example the date he was born or where he lived as a child, it is known he succeeded to no estate, went to no university, was apprenticed to a 'joiner' by trade, and must have persevered through his apprenticeship and taken up his freedom, as he was referred to in the latter years as a 'joiner'”
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
“... all my life I’ve been terrible at remembering people’s names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.”
—Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)
“Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)