#lived

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father

Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington. ↗

— Betty Ford

#drove #ford #grand #had #hands

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#better #change #consideration #even #experienced

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

— Erich Fromm

#die #having #idea #lived #unbearable

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#beginning #change #city #compared #europe

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#because #characters #hardest #knowledge #live

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#feast #go #life #lived #lucky

The truth is lived, not taught. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#taught #truth #truth is

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

— James J. Hill

#great #had #lived #men #mine

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#because #breathed #easier #even #know