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  • About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”
  • All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

    Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
  • The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

    Love   Children   Fall  
  • The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

    Doors   People   Secret  
  • We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.

    Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
  • It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

    Book   Ambition   Effort  
    William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage
  • Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

    Sports   Hero   Stories  
    "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.
  • Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

    Life   Change   Goodbye  
    Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster
  • To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

    Self   Giving   Identity  
  • Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

    Heart   Fighting   Garden  
    FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from Nov 15, 2015
  • The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  • It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

  • Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.

  • A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.

    Strong   Rain   Believe  
    "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress : The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie" by Haile Selassie, translated by Edward Ullendorff, 1976.
  • When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life.

  • The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

    "USSR Information Bulletin", (p. 322), 1942.
  • That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

  • I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

    Stories   Quitting   Ends  
    Jen Lancaster (2010). “My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto”, p.23, Penguin
  • Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

    Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”
  • Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.

    Life   Father   Years  
    William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.934
  • The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

    Drinking   Tea   Stories  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Must I tell the story of my life again?

  • The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.

    Fashion   Years   Clothes  
    "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.
  • I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

    Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.56, Penguin
  • And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always feel me and think of me. I could see that, but there was no longer anything I could do. Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose tot ell it, even to one person at a time.

  • If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.

    Hate   Real   Play  
    Source: djbooth.net
  • I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

    Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.
  • There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

  • Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

    Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.

    Mistake   Errors   Trying  
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