Life Sentence

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or sentence:

“The best thing in life is doing things people say you can’t do.”
—Jennifer Moore (b. 1972)

“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)