My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
Roger Bannister

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
Shelley Berman

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Knut Hamsun

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
Jessica Hagedorn

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
Robert Falcon Scott

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
David Hilbert

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
Bo Bennett

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.
Deborah Bull

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
Frank Shorter

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
Eudora Welty

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
F. Murray Abraham

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
Myrna Loy

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield

There's so much to becoming a woman.
Michael Rosenbaum

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
John James Audubon