I Quotes
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“I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.”
“I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.”
“I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.”
“I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.”
“I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.”
Source: Out of silence: selected poems
“I lived in the house with my mother so she had no choice but to hear what I was doing. I would ask her for her opinion. I used to like doing that because I would let my friends hear what I did, but they listened to it on another level. My mom listened to it with a different ear, because she's older.”
“I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.”
“I lived in the present, slowly, except for tremors of terror, physical memories of the beatings, the blood. I took drugs. I took who I wanted, male or female. I was alert. I read books. I listened to music. I was near the water. I had no money. I watched everyone. I kept going. I would be alone and feel happy. It frightened me. Coitus is the punishment for the happiness of being alone. One can't face being happy. It is too extreme.”
Source: Ice and Fire
“I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.”
“I lived in the royal library, among all the books."
"You resided in a... library?"
"There were suites inside and great balconies that overlooked the city, but yes. I was most content among those shelves, so one night, I simply never left.”
Source: Shadow's Claim
“I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.”
“I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.”
“I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.”
“I lived in Tucson for fifteen years and was sickly the entire time!”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.”
“I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.”
“I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.”
“I lived inside of those books growing up. I want to take care of them, the way they took care of me”
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.”
“I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I lived my duty,
now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”
Source: Fool's Assassin
“I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.”
“I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.”
“I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.”
“I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.”
“I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.”
“I lived my whole life following others’ wishes. Let me follow my own wish in my death.”
Source: The Timingila
“I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life — every aspect of it. So, in some ways, the thought of not being able to do that anymore radically affects your life.”
“I lived my youth in dreams of others.”
“I lived my youth inside the dreams of gorgeous women.”
“I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'”
“I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.”
“I lived on a #Parkavenue for 8 years…it didn't even cost me $23.8million; determining the value of my residence locations, didn't come to me through the face value of a currency denomination, but the credence I gave to my wealthy 'place'ment by real estate connotations.”
“I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.”
“I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.”
“I lived on Hawaii Island and observed problems with their police officers.”
“I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.”
“I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.”
“I Lived on the street when i was a kid, i wasn’t even at school, so i had a whole different set of experiences for those formative years. I was gone… i was in a very precarious place when i was younger.”
“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.”
“I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the Mall Of America. Then the obvious fact that it's pre-Internet, pre-cell phone. Everyone I think thinks their youth is a more innocent time. I just don't know.”
“I lived. Others died.
I lived, yet I feel dead.
Maybe I want to feel alive, considering my time may be limited...
Logan was in the good parts that I thought no longer existed. He awakened a long-gone light as though not all the good inside me had been destroyed.”
Source: The Risk
“I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.”
“I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.”
“I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.”
“I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?”
“I lived that year on top of a wooden tower in an area east of Santa Rosa known as the Valley of the Moon.”
Source: Teller