Lived Quotes

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 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.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

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

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.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.