Significant Milestones Quotes

Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there for every major event.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

For me, all days are memorable days.

You never know when you're making a memory.

When I occasionally indulge in sort of a 'look back' at highlights, it's so interesting - it almost never comes from an image on a set or even the Academy Awards. It's almost always a family trip or meeting and falling in love with Cheryl.

Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

I think I have had so many amazing moments in my life.

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

We have done so many things that are noteworthy and an accomplishment one day after the next. The storyline should not be about bogus Russian spy stories. They should be that this president has accomplished more in the first 30 days of this presidency than people can possibly remember in a very long time.