I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching…

I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People are always…

— Jean Marsh

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

— Peggy Noonan

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their…

— Henry Ford

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks,…

— Arnold Palmer

“Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn’t completely true. Yeah, you could decide what…

— Nicholas Sparks

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the…

— Adam Haslett

“It was laid out much like any other town—thoughtlessly, and in haste. Here is where the rich people lived, and here the workers. This…

— Daniel Wallace

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried…

— Roger Bannister

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence…

— John Sergeant Wise

“I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would”

— Richard Brautigan

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Many other inhabitants of the city were similarly afflicted. Every day, more and more people took to saving time, and the more they did…

— Michael Ende, Momo

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high…

— Fran Drescher