Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.

I wake up every morning new, free as a bird.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

It's never too late to start the day over.

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Know this: you can start over, each morning.