Forefathers Quote by A. J. Jacobs

I wanted to really delve into the idea of reckoning with difficult things in one's past - and celebrating the joyful things, and honoring…

— Arlo Parks

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they…

— Lizzy Caplan

I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.

— Ralph Lauren

I wanted to make a comfortable living and raise a family, and that's what I did.

— W. Earl Brown

My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.

— Diana DeGette

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

— Michael Bergin

I wanted to do everything right. I wanted to be good, and I wanted to be obedient, and I wanted to be the object…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

— Ella Maillart

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout…

— Henry David Thoreau

People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.

— Rohan Marley

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not…

— Vincent Van Gogh