“The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The problem with marriage is that it was invented when people lived to the ripe old age of 30. — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning. — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence. — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Stories were the way People lived. Like paths, they could be traveled in any direction, yet always ran from beginning to end.” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It used to be that people lived off of the land, but Israel is a classic case of the land living off… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
There are also people who lived in either side of Germany, but who never had or have any relationship with the other… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
“Like Rosaleen and Arthur's house, this had the feel of generations of people who had lived there before, families that had grown… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“She tried not to be gloomy at funerals. People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that… — I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
“There was a time if my mother had said we she’d have meant me and her. Now it was them. She was… — Yvvette Edwards Copy Share Image
“It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you… — Tabitha McGowan Copy Share Image
“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the old days I could walk down every single street, past every house, in about an hour. I’d try to remember… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“They were both going to the big country where there were more psychiatrists than anywhere else in the world. We could just… — Francois Lelord Copy Share Image
“Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn’t completely true. Yeah, you could… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Nobody really knew anything. People lived; they went here and there about the earth and rode through forests; so much seemed to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Some five hundred people lived there. Four thousand years ago I should have found their ancestors living in the same place, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Many other inhabitants of the city were similarly afflicted. Every day, more and more people took to saving time, and the more… — Michael Ende, Momo Copy Share Image
“That day in Chartres they had passed through town and watched women kneeling at the edge of the water, pounding clothes against… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“…For many years now, that way of living has been scorned, and over the last 40 or 50 years it has nearly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I've come to read and hear many unlikely things about the times when people lived in freedom, i.e., the unorganized savage state.… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even today I cannot believe that people who lived together could inflict horrible pain on each other. — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
“Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image