Four Walls Quotes

• I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Home, Thinking

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• Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Wall, Women

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• I am sick of four walls and a ceiling
  I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

  Richard Hovey

  Wall, Sky, Sick

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• My family's the most important thing in my life.

  Joe Namath

  Family, Winning, Relatives And Friends

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• Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

  Margaret Barber

  Wall, Vision, Four

  Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”

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• All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

  Doris Betts

  Wall, Writing, Feelings

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• I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

  Washington Irving

  Wall, Writing, Mind

  Washington Irving (1869). “Irving's Works”, p.382

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• Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Wall, Dancing

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• My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wall, Home, House

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831”

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• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Wall, Giving

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• The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

  Al Lopez

  Wall, Player, Four

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• An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Four, Pockets

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, March 11, 1892.

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Wall, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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• I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

  The Weeknd

  Wall, Years, World

  "Song: Kiss Land". September 10, 2013.

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• The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.

  Maurice Hayes

  Wall, Moving, White

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• You know, what God uses to impress a pagan world is really the quality of life, the standard of living that we have. Because when all is said and done – now that you have become a Christian, how much better is your life as compared to those outside the four walls of the church? And I love what Dr Phil is trying to bring throughout the whole movement and to all his friends around the world, that our job is to give all our members the ‘best life now’. Yeah! Amen?

  Kong Hee

  Christian, Jobs, Wall

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Wall, Weather, Air

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• Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

  Arthur Ashe

  Wall, School, Library

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• As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities.

  Alice Munro

  Wall, Believe, Men

  Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart (2003). “No Love Lost”, New Canadian Library

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• I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

  Jodi Picoult

  Religious, Wall, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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