Apartment Quote by Ben Katchor

If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s.…

— Frankie Valli

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that…

— Carl Sandburg

Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden,…

— Courtney B. Vance

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe…

— Marie Curie

In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were…

— Eavan Boland

In 1949, when I was 2, my family moved from Yonkers, NY, to a development of brick houses in Elmont, a Long Island suburb…

— Susan Lucci

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed…

— David Johansen

I want to work on bringing back the connection of how it used to be back in the day. Between people.

— Skip Marley

I was raised in a house on the far South Side of Chicago, in a development erected on a landfill made from slag and…

— Scott Spencer

Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This…

— Werner Heisenberg

I spent my late twenties and all of my thirties figuring out what I was supposed to be doing and where my home was.

— Faith Salie

I don't have memories of that time, but my parents were obviously around during the Troubles, and lots of members of my family, and…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell