Life and Career
Ivan Menzies was born in Bristol, England, the son of a Lake District doctor. He served on the Western Front in World War I before shattering his right arm and thigh in the Battle of the Somme on 8 August 1916.
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Famous quotes containing the words life and, life and/or career:
“Life and Death are fated; riches and honor lie with Heaven.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“Continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY; I mean Felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life it self is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Faeroe, no more than without Sense.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)