Where You Live Quotes

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Christian Morgenstern

Wisdom, Travel, Home

"No shame in living with parents" by Tim Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.

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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephen King

Friendship, Letting Go, Song

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 08, 2014

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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

Mitch Albom

Matter, Defects, Humans

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.156, Broadway Books

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Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.

David Sedaris

Baby, Fun, Lunch

David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.94, Hachette UK

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But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.

Daniel Handler

Country, Europe, Law

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Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Thomas Paine

Country, Winter, Blessing

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.53, Penguin

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Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.

Mitch Albom

Military, Rising Up, People

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I go through fan mail myself, but I think I might get them censored, because I'm always expecting to get the one thing that says, 'I know where you live and I'm going to kill you!' I'm always expecting that to come, but it never seems to arrive. I never get any negative mail, so someone must be censoring them.

Robert Pattinson

Thinking, Fans, Negative

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Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Charlie Cook

Nature, Roots, Matter

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The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.

Natalie Maines

Country, Land, People

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She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.

Toni Morrison

Life, People, Needs

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I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Marjorie M. Liu

Crazy, Black, Belts

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I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'

Tina Fey

New York, Thinking, Village

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Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Joyce Meyer

Jobs, Real, Life Is

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I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.

Pat Paulsen

Iowa, California, Looks

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Two years gives you enough time to grow and to change, and to, you know, change your priorities. Change where you live, change your hair, change what you believe in, change who you hang out with, what’s influencing you, what’s inspiring you. And in the process of all of those changes in the last two years, my music changed.

Taylor Swift

Believe, Hair, Years

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No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Daniel Handler

People, Important, Matter

"The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Robin McKinley

Names, Needs, Humans

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People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Heart, Eye, Garden

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It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

Mark Cuban

Clothes You Wear, Car, Matter

Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.89, Diversion Books

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It's very important where you live. Because where you live, the energies make it easier or more difficult to dream. In certain places dreams are very manifest and very strong. So you should always pick a place to live that's good to dream in. One of the best places to dream is by the ocean.

Frederick Lenz

Dream, Strong, Ocean

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Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

Mark Lawrence

Pain, Distance, Headache

Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.50, Penguin

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I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

Paul Prudhomme

House, Quality, Firsts

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I spent a lot of time, a lot of energy trying to be a better artist and I still [do]. I spend a lot of time focusing on my craft. If you're going to take your passion into something beyond just something for fun on the side, you got to spend a lot of time on it to be great, and then you've got to make smart decisions about who you collaborate with [and] where you live [to] put yourself in the right situations to meet the right people to catch those breaks.

John Legend

Fun, Smart, Passion

"John Legend Has The Realest Advice For College Students". Interview with Deepa Lakshmin, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2015.

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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Past, Men, Roots

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