Lived Quotes

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

I'm a Bristol person too, I lived in Bristol during the war.

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.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.