Ernie Pyle Quotes

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Look for me in the whirlwind.

That's why I think life is so incredible, right? Anything is possible. You can be one way one day, and then you can have one experience that could be tiny-itty-bitty or big, and it can shift your whole focus and your whole life.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

It is sure to be a year on the brink of catastrophe or rejuvenation.

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

Eventually, I realized that I would not have a life until I buckled down. Once I did, I auditioned for Juilliard - and that changed everything.

Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.