Lived Quotes

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.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

I've lived the American dream.

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.