Lived Quotes

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

Life must be lived as play.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.