Become Quotes

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.