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  1. quoteinvestigator.com › 2013/12/17 › breathsLife Is Not Measured By the Number of Breaths We Take, But By ...

    Dec 17, 2013 · It does seem to us that his life was all too short. But a life cannot be measured by its length. For “we live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We must count time by heart-throbs.”

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  3. quoteinvestigator.com › tag › hilary-cooperHilary Cooper – Quote Investigator®

    Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away! Dancing can do that for you! The above citation was uncovered by the author Phil Bolsta who was writing a book which included a large number of quotations.

  4. www.answers.com › Q › &'Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but ...

    Mar 22, 2024 · Hilary Cooper is the one that most often is quoted as using it though usually it shows up as "Anonymous" ... Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the number of moments that ...

  5. www.goodreads.com › topic › showGoodreads Librarians Group - Issues with Quotes: Origin of ...

    • 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

  6. splinister.com › 2014/03/03 › life-is-not-measuredlife is not measured – Maura McHugh

    Mar 3, 2014 · The full quote is: “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” Of course it wasn’t attributed, so I had a quick look online today to figure out who said it first. Looking at this discussion online it appears that it is regularly attributed to Hilary Cooper or George Carlin.

  7. visual.ly › life-not-measured-number-hilary-cooperLife Is Not Measured By the Number - Hilary Cooper | Visual.ly

    Life Is Not Measured By the Number - Hilary Cooper. LIFEISNOT MEASURED by the BREATHS NUMBER OF we lake, but by the moments that take our BREATH AWAY MAYA ANGELOU