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

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Sympathy, Baby

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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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• 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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• A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others.

  Mao Zedong

  Thinking, Littles, Communist

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.274, China Books

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• Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way.

  Warren Leight

  Self, Locks, Fever

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• I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Play, Mad, Done

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• Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Simple, Space

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• And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

  Tim Winton

  Wall, Block, Light

  Tim Winton (2014). “The Riders”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

  Ellis Peters

  Brother, Soul, Elbows

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.

  J. Lynn

  Two, People, Soul

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• The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Soul, Skins, Cold

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.

  Anne Rice

  Loneliness, Kissing, Sea

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

  Peter Kreeft

  Silly, Son, Dark

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• There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

  Stephen Fry

  Soul, Individual, Mines

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.105, Soho Press

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• In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wind, Sea, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

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• Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

  James Lileks

  Death, Home, Nursing

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