Log Cabin Quotes

#1. A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere
even in prison.

Louis Auchincloss

#2. My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

John Lautner

#3. I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

Vinnie Jones

#4. I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

Captain Beefheart

#5. The archetypal dwelling of the American frontier, the log cabin, was in fact a Scots development, if not invention. The word itself, cabine, meant any sort of rude enclosure or hut, made of stone and dirt in Scotland, or sod and mud in Ireland.

Arthur Herman

#6. I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

Linda McCartney

#7. I've had just one goal. I wanted to get to the 22nd floor before anyone else ... so I could buy a certain player house, a log cabin deep in a thick forest.

Reki Kawahara

#8. A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.

Gene Logsdon

#9. I remember like yesterday how he strayed in out of nowhere to our log cabin on Birdsong Creek. He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks.

Fred Gipson

#10. The happier ending is Twin Peaks is still out there. Waiting, watchful, alive. Haunted, full of shivers and delights, a candle glimpsed in a log cabin window, while passing through a few and darkening wood.
Some dreams survive.

Mark Frost

#11. The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.

Dan Aykroyd

#12. Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

James Truslow Adams

#13. Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

Anders Zorn

#14. The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.

Jack Todd

#15. Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.

James Luceno

#16. There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.

William J. Clinton

#18. For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

Stewart Butterfield

#19. Small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family's fortunes

Rita Mae Brown

#20. Robert Strauss, the former Democratic chairman who died last year, once said every politician wants every voter to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself.

Anonymous

#21. There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Gustav Stickley

#22. I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin ... ' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Corey Taylor

#23. If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

Rita Coolidge

#24. As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#25. Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.

Orlando Bloom

#26. I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business.

Cullen Bunn

#27. Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Rube Goldberg

#28. He was poised on circumstance.

Louise Erdrich

#29. Probably one should never feel such gaiety or such despair. Better to operate on an even keep like Friedan and Gloria and the others.

Kate Millett

#30. You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

Kacey Musgraves

#31. Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

Maisie Williams

#32. In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up

Manoj Arora

#33. I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me.

Nathan W. Morris

#34. If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.

Gloria Furman

#35. I expect my next job to be outside government.

John Engler

#36. We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

Douglas Feith