Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
Chinua Achebe
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with... →
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm... →
Gary Ackerman
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful... →
Jensen Ackles
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable... →
Peter Ackroyd
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom... →
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in... →