Alive Quotes

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

God, I hope she is found alive.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

We are most alive when we're in love.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.

The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.