Living Quotes

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.