Kitchen Window Quotes

#1. The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us...

Nauman Khan

#2. The kitchen window groaned open, and Jimi shouted out, "Blue! Your boys are out front, looking like they're fixing to bury a body."
Again? Blue thought.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Bill Mollison

#4. I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

Reese Witherspoon

#5. Saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: Luke! Inside. Now.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#6. Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

Molly Keane

#7. Kitchen window. Scairt the chickens out o' the yard," he added, with a feeble grin. "Less about chickens, Young Ian," I said, looking

Diana Gabaldon

#8. [She] smiles, too, and eats and drinks, and is happy, and outside the kitchen window the wind blows and the world shifts and crumbles and rearranges itself, and time goes on.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Between a cold kitchen window gone opaque with the stove's wet heat and the breath of us, an open drawer, and the gilt ferrotype of identical boys flanking a blind vested father which hung in a square recession above the wireless's stand, my Mum stood and cut off my long hair in the uneven heat.

David Foster Wallace

#10. When I opened the last [401k] statement, I jumped out of the window. True, it was the kitchen window and I only fell two feet, so the whole scene lacked drama, but I thought that was the required reaction to extreme financial turmoil in America. And I am nothing if not patriotic.

Celia Rivenbark

#11. I'd definitely like to study other things and keep on learning all the time, but I wouldn't want to do anything else. Ultimately, acting is my craft. I've always been interested in psychology and nutrition, but I don't know that I'd go and make that my profession.

Cindy Busby

#12. Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

William Shakespeare

#13. You stand before a god! Speak your eloquence for all posterity. Be Profound!"
"Profound ... huh." Temper was silent for a long moment, studying the cobbles of the alley mouth. And then he lifted his helmed head faced Shadowthrone, and said "Fuck off.

Steven Erikson

#14. Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

Carl Sandburg

#15. You,
quiet and alone in your kitchen, cigaretteless.
Me, left tapping on your rain-streaked window,

wanting you to know that everything is going
to get better, and really hoping that it does.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#16. I always try to think in curves.

Greg Lynn

#17. I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

Tyra Banks

#18. Nothing dries more quickly than a tear.

Ika Natassa

#19. Quit worrying so much about the boards and nails of your life. Focus on the stuff that lasts. He glanced through the window toward the glowing light of the kitchen where Meg and my mom were laughing about something.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#20. Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

Kent Haruf

#21. turning my gaze away from the kitchen to the reflection in the window. An old lady. I saw her every day, this woman, but her reflection never ceased to surprise me. When did I become her?

Sarah Jio

#22. A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.
She would make it light enough to float away.
She reached over to open the window.
To float to her daughter.

Sarah Addison Allen

#23. By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

Linus Torvalds

#24. History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

Josh Fox

#25. I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish.

Raymond Chandler

#26. One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.

David Millar

#27. Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

Susanna Kaysen

#28. writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window.

Helen Macdonald

#29. Lou stood at the kitchen sink, her eyes unfocused on her hazy reflection in the window. Outside the sky was fading from steely blue to indigo. The mountain range beyond was a solid sheet of black, cut out by a child's sloppy scissors.

Danika Stone

#30. The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

Grace Lee Boggs

#31. I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

Sarah Hall

#32. My bank does not accept likes.

Chris Brogan

#33. I don't know if I have sexual magnetism or animal magnetism, though sometimes I'll find a squirrel stuck to my forehead.

Emo Philips

#34. I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

Mireille Guiliano

#35. I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

Martin Luther King Jr.

#36. Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

Richard Morris