#lived

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#been #before #different #each #fascinated

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#born #campus #i #i was born #life

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #community #contact #direct #eye

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. ↗

— Francois Jacob

#always #answer #chase #day #euphoric

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#lady #lived #long #now #passed

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#ago #always #circus #claim #going

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#back #best #conscious #conscious decision #decision

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#across #been #could #cures #difference

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#alabama #decades #doing #found #hard

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. ↗

— Charles Wagner

#certain #elemental #humanity #lived #lives