Lived Quotes

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

My life was a mystery even as I lived it.

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.