Latecomers Famous Quotes & Sayings
26 Latecomers Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
We are not our station in life. We are us - the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close.— Pierce Brown
I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a quantity of things that men hated. Or had no use for, as they said. And that was exactly right. They had no use for it, so they hated it. Maybe it was the same way I felt about algebra- I doubted very much that I would ever find any use for it. But I didn't go so far as to want it wiped off the face of the earth for that reason.— Alice Munro
We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.— Diane Setterfield
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter— Diane Setterfield
Now to die of grief— Joseph Brodsky
would mean, I'm afraid, to die
belatedly, while latecomers
are unwelcome, particularly in the future ...
I like to keep my private life private for the most part.— Bode Miller
The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck, yet nonetheless survived in niche environments. Similarly, on a larger scale, it is rare for the loser to disappear completely, or for the latecomers never to gain at least a precarious foothold. The fact that flight had already evolved among birds did not preclude its later evolution in bats, which became the most numerous mammalian species. The evolution of plants did not lead to the disappearance of algae, or indeed the evolution of vascular plants to the disappearance of mosses.— Nick Lane
At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.— Nelson Mandela
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.— Junot Diaz
To the latecomers are left the bones.
We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from the shape of later events.— Diane Setterfield
The artists of this nation - state are, taken as one historical subject, one of 'latecomers' to the smorgasbord of the artistic pantheon.Even if Sweden as a nation-state thus seems to have been excluded from the world art history its contemporary arts infrastructure presently makes the country a much more vital place of production.— Charlotte Bydler
Interesting people always have a past.— Jeannette Walls
NO SHORTS or SANDAL!! This for your own protection.— Tera Lynn Childs
Tomorrow's boot camp will be something SPECIAL! Meet in front of the maintenance shed at the north end of the quad at 10 A.M! Latecomers will be left behind and this is a day you will not want to miss!
- Adara -
I roll my eyes. Besides her overuse of exclamation points and her tendency to yell, the idea that we're doing "something special" in camp tomorrow is not exciting. It's terrifying.
We're only here briefly. And while I'm here I want to allow myself joy.— Amy Adams
Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.— Stephen Jay Gould
We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.— Eleanor Roosevelt
And you think journeying abroad will give you this knowledge you crave?— Jacqueline Winspear
I think it will contribute to my understanding of the world, of people.
More so than say, the old lady who has lived in the same house her entire life, who has borne children both alive and dead? Who tends her soil; who sees the sun shine and the rain fall over the land, winter, spring, summer and autumn? What might you say to the idea that we all have a capacity for wisdom, just as a jug has room for a finite amount of water-pouring more water in the jug doesn't increase that capacity.
wages are good,...Profits are better.— Jim Rohn
Our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.— Orlando Rodriguez
Great, as long as you're happy— Craig Ferguson
When you're ten, they call you a prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. But once you hit twenty, you're just a normal person.— Masahiro Yokotani
I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.— Robert Wyatt
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.— Ian McKellen
So now we just need to figure out what the hell people wear in Montana." "Brokeback-chic?" I offered.— R.S. Grey
Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.— Joel Osteen
