Rooms Quotes

• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

  Erma Bombeck

  Time, Children, Views

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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Education, Philosophy

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• I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.

  Russell Wilson

  Dream, Jesus, Morning

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

  Gary Busey

  Party, Kids, Dark

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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Sympathy, Baby

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• You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  New York Times, May 21, 1986.

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  ""Even now I have to pinch myself we are together": Bruce Forsyth on 30 years of wedded bliss". www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.

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• Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support.

  Melissa Rivers

  Mother, Support, Care

  "Daughter: Joan Rivers leaves ICU, 'kept comfortable' in private room" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2014.

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• One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Baby, Children, Mean

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• Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Drawing, Want, Elegance

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• Porches are America's lost rooms.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  America, Lost, Porch

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1996). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Light, Air, Comfort

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Color, Different, Nervous

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• Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
  Or what is worse, be left by it?
  Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly,
  Oh, man! ordain'd to die?
  Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
  Thou who art under ground to lie?
  Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see,
  For death, alas! is reaping thee.

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Lying, Men

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1826). “Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse”, p.217

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• I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

  Grantland Rice

  Practice, Lawyer, Hours

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• There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Leaving, Pieces

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.7, Zola Books

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• A club there is of smokers--dare you come
  To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
  When, midnight past, the very candles seem
  Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
  When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
  And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Past, Air

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.180

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• Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

  Horace Mann

  Be Careful, Retiring, Careful

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• When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Color, Two, White

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

  Mary McCarthy

  Soul, Today, Advertising

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Years, Done

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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