Doorstep Quotes

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  • As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

    Travel   Home   Memorable  
    "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.
  • Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

  • What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.

    Months   Blame   Trouble  
  • I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

  • You don't have to worry about the guy that threatens to beat you up. Worry about the guy that shows up on your doorstep, looking for a fight.

    Fighting   Worry   Guy  
    John Layfield (2007). “Have More Money Now”, p.173, Simon and Schuster
  • To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

    Light   Events   Hell  
    Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications
  • A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

    Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.185, A&C Black
  • And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

    Sorry   Mean   Shopping  
    Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.232, VNR AG
  • A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

    Exit   Domain   Doorstep  
  • We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

    Father   Teaching   Night  
  • The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.

    State of the Nation Address, July 25, 2005.
  • Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

    Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press
  • Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

  • Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

    Life   Truth   Errors  
  • He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

    Spring   Rivers   Feet  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.

  • Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

    Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.63, Ignatius Press
  • I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

    People   Giving   Energy  
  • I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

    Naked   Pounds   Boxes  
    "Olivia Wilde, Rashida Jones, Zosia Mamet Talk Sex & Why ‘You Can’t Lie To Your Vagina’" by Emma Gray, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2012.
  • In the family, life is brought not only to our doorstep, but into our kitchens, bedrooms, and dens. In the family, life is happening all around us, and it begs to be questioned, evaluated, interpreted, and discussed. There is no more consistent, pregnant, dynamic forum for instruction about life than the family, because that is exactly what God designed the family to be, a learning community.

  • Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

    Mean   Negative   Guests  
  • The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

    Artist   Sitting   Sage  
  • Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

    Drama   Exotic   Earth  
  • Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

    Feet   Sides   Sunny  
    "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (song) (1930)
  • In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

    Issues   Long   Lists  
    "The plea of car owners ..." by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.
  • In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.

    War   Animal   Car  
  • Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

    Stars   Truth   Ignorance  
    George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
  • Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

    Good Life   Lying   Wind  
  • At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

    Weekend   Lunch   Half  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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