Lived Quotes

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

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.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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 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.