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Dec 17, 2013 · “Life is Not Measured By The Number of Breaths We Take. But By The Moments That Take Our Breath Away. Hilary Cooper. By 2009 the saying had been reassigned to the notable author Maya Angelou.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I doubt that this was coined by George Carlin or Maya Angelou though I have seen those ascriptions.
- by dojodo (new) Jan 29, 2012 02:56PM. Can anyone verify the origin/publication for this quote? "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
- by Keith (new) Feb 14, 2012 01:27PM. Google Books shows no sources prior to about 2005, and the most common attribution is "Unknown" so I have added it to Anonymous with a misattributed tag.
- by Carlo Borsattino (new) Feb 28, 2021 08:38AM. In case this helps, Quote Investigator has investigated this and concludes: "In conclusion, this entry represents a snapshot of salient pieces of evidence QI has located.
- by Keith (new) Mar 01, 2021 01:52PM. Thanks for that update, Carlo. It seems that the original quote link that I updated to Bob Moorehead above was deleted in the intervening nine years, but one now exists for Corona
Mar 3, 2014 · Looking at this discussion online it appears that it is regularly attributed to Hilary Cooper or George Carlin. But just because someone said something, doesn’t mean it originated with them. Another source claims that this was a quote written for a greeting card put out by the Carleton Card company in the mid 1970s.
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Oct 27, 2018 · Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. When I observe my two-year-old daughter, it happened to her several times a day that she is so astonished, surprised and happy that she shouts it out loud because otherwise she hardly can breathe in that wonderful moment.
