Crowded Quotes

• I really didn't say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Silly, Mlb, Dumb

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Mar. 1986

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• There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Together, Reason, Ecstasy

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.15, Verso

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• In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

  William Kittredge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

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• His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

  William Golding

  Memories, Struggle, Taken

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.48, Hamilton Books

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• Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

  Yogi Berra

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• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Preparation, Ladders

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House

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• Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Used, Mets, Walking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.9, Google Publishing

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• There are gems of wondrous brightness
  Ofttimes lying at our feet,
  And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
  Down the busy, crowded street.
  If we knew, our pace would slacken,
  We would step more oft with care,
  Lest our careless feet be treading
  To the earth some jewel rare.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

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• For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

  William Henry Hudson

  Cities, Joy, Soul

  William Henry Hudson (2010). “The Purple Land: Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as Told by Himself”, p.235, The Floating Press

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• Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Thank You, Teacher, Kindness

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• Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.

  Anne Fadiman

  Sleep, Writing, Cities

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar,
  Dancing on the light from star to star.
  Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are,
  I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.
  
  I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
  You could have been anyone to me.
  Before that moment you touched my lips
  That perfect feeling when time just slips
  Away between us on our foggy trip.

  Neil Young

  Dream, Stars, Eye

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• The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

  Mary McCarthy

  Life, Character, Cities

  "On the contrary".

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• I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Children, Home, Parenting

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• I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Strong, Garden, Shoes

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• Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Change, Dream, Work

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.

  Nina Berberova

  Thinking, Men, Waiting

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• Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Heart, Love Life

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• Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.

  Patricia Hampl

  Humble, Night, Knitting

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• The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

  Jim Morrison

  Lovers, Forget, Wilderness

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

  Noah Cicero

  Feet, Guitar, Bird

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• Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Taken, Law, People

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• The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

  Eric Hoffer

  Disappointment, Empty Life, Achievement

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Clouds, Eight

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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