#lived

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#back #big #day #every #every day

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#deeds #form #great #life #lived

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#been #cancel #comfortable #each #gay

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments. ↗

— John Boehner

#cloud #day #extremists #first #governments

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#futility #hate #i #lived #only

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. ↗

— Humphrey Bogart

#died #few #i #i was born #kissed

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#agreement #commitments #completely #destruction #dismantle

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived. ↗

— John Bracken

#any #day #different #give #here

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#anybody #day #discipline #home #hours