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" I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. "

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" I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. "

Barbara Kingsolver

" My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well. "

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

" Before finding a mentor, I feel it's essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged - and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor's attention. "

Raney Aronson-Rath

" What happens is when you have a kid, you are a unique human being, so you are going to have a unique experience. No one can really tell you what youre going to feel. "

" Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a film. I am happy learning something new each time. "

" The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life. "

Jamie Campbell Bower

" Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. "

" Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. "

" There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you! "

Poppy Montgomery

" HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem. "

" You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. "

" Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else. "

" Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience. "

" There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. "

" Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God. "

Jeane Kirkpatrick

" I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom. "

" As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life. "

" Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. "

" Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. "

" Innocence can be more powerful than experience. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

" Conviction without experience makes for harshness. "

Flannery O'Connor

" Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time. "

" Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. "

" Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge. "

" If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. "

" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics. "

Darryl Pinckney

" What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable. "