Living Quotes

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

I'm living the American dream.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.