Quotes About Doorstep

#1. The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at our doorstep when things are advanced.

Abraham Verghese

#2. I hadn't been left on the doorstep of an orphanage or church. I wasn't abandoned in some frilly basket by a tearful mother. Even that was too romantic of a story for me. I was left in a trashcan. Meant to die, I figured.

R.K. Lilley

#3. 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.

John Layfield

#4. The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Paul Strand

#5. It is easy in retrospect to see why he'd want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.

Jenny Offill

#6. Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Dorothy Fields

#7. To a Mormon at the doorstep of a psychologis: I know what you think you think, but I know what you think.

Rodney Compton

#8. I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#9. I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

Frederik Pohl

#10. It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Peter Jackson

#11. I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying.
-Paige

Kelley Armstrong

#12. For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

Umberto Eco

#13. When we decided to move West, I worried about how to defend my family and my stock from Indians, but I never worried about inheriting one!"
--from Prairie Grace when Georgia's father Thomas realizes gravely ill Gray Wolf has been left at their doorstep

Marilyn Bay Wentz

#14. One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

Barbara Holland

#15. Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

Nick Turse

#16. If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

Robin S. Sharma

#17. I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

Lily Allen

#18. When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

Carolyn Brown

#19. When the darkness arrives at the doorstep of the light, it should be a moment of celebration and acceptance, not an excuse for more separation.

Delano Johnson

#20. The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.

Alan Bradley

#21. I am the sea witch. I am the tide you fear and the turning you can't deny. I am the sound of the waves running over your bones on the beach, little man, and I am not amused at finding you on my doorstep.

Seanan McGuire

#22. He missed having a wild green world on his doorstep - no rabbits or pheasants or badgers.

Kate Atkinson

#23. Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love.

Susan Rich

#24. But it occurred to me suddenly that trust wasn't an object, not something that arrived on your doorstep, solid and absolute. It was a decision, a leap.

Jenn Marie Thorne

#25. I don't run from these worries though. I invite each one into my heart and mind. At the doorstep of my emotional threshold I greet them like a perfect host. Each worry tracks mud into my home and dirties the furniture. I grit and bear my houseguests. Their time with me will be short-lived.

Sarah Noffke

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

Peter Kreeft

#27. Karma waits on the doorstep, meaning that a person may try to walk away from past actions, but like a dog sleeping by the door until its master returns, Karma can be endlessly patient. Eventually the universe will insist on redressing the balance of wrong with right.

Deepak Chopra

#28. Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

Beatrix Potter

#29. I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Anne Campbell

#30. 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#31. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net was OK. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his.

Stieg Larsson

#32. After a year of transformation Foster's Group sits at the doorstep of a period of sustained strong earnings growth.

Trevor O'Hoy

#33. Growing up, 'Newsday' was the paper that was delivered to my doorstep every day.

Kevin Connolly

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

Deepak Chopra

#35. The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

John Updike

#36. Instead of waiting for beauty to show up at your doorstep, create so much beauty within you that it will inevitably overflow in all directions.

Nityananda Das

#37. The volcanic bubbling of everything in one pan made it very difficult to hear a crying child on the doorstep.

Ainslie Hogarth

#38. People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

David Axelrod

#39. If I show up on your doorstep don't worry I'm just there to party.

Kenny D. Eichenberg

#40. In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.

Lance Loud

#41. Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Al Sharpton

#42. Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

Charles Hazlewood

#43. If everyone sweeps their own doorstep, their own neighbourhoods, the world will be a clean, pure and healthy place for life to prosper.

Vishwas Chavan

#44. If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Nina Fedoroff

#45. When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#46. I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Dan Jenkins

#47. We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

Shane Claiborne

#48. And let's be honest, you weren't exactly harmed. I even took you home." "You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked half dead." "Your mother exaggerates. A third dead at most." I stared at him. Wow. Just wow.

Ilona Andrews

#49. It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

Trevor Noah

#50. The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

Freya Stark

#51. Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, 'Well, Mormons and Christians all believe the same things,' my response is, 'If that's true, why are they always on my front doorstep trying to convert me?'

Robert Jeffress

#52. Rock salt and bread by the doorstep to placate any resident gods. Sandalwood on our pillow, to sweeten our dreams.

Joanne Harris

#53. The first time I've actually filmed in London, the locations we've all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you've got everything on your doorstep, so when you've got time off, you can go into town, so I've really enjoyed it.

Jonas Armstrong

#54. I leave you, home,
when I'm ripped from the doorstep
by commerce or fate. Then I submit
to the awful subway of the world ...

Anne Sexton

#55. Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.

Ed Wood

#56. 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.'

Katherine Jenkins

#57. That's how he'd thought of most people - appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later as if by flood .

Adam Johnson

#58. 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.

Jennifer Harrison

#59. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.

Mandy Hale

#60. Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

Sean Parker

#61. Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

George Iles

#62. My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.

Sylvia Earle

#63. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

#64. Given the choice between finding Godzilla and David Chambers on her doorstep, she'd have opted for the reptile, and never mind it wasn't the one who had the law degree.

Sandra Marton

#65. I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

Matthew Rhys

#66. I guess what they say is true, when hell is at your doorstep, kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.

Derek Shupert

#67. A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Brian Greene

#68. A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Chris Murphy

#69. Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

Patrick Carman

#70. I wish I could look back and say that I have learned to love as much as I loved to learn. But if I like, there could be a cauldron boiling for me in hell tomorrow, and who can assure me tomorrow is not already on my doorstep, now that I am as old as an oak tree, and still not consigned to the grave?

Elif Shafak

#71. I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

Lynne Stewart

#72. 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.

Tamora Pierce

#73. We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

Nate Berkus

#74. If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

J.R.R. Tolkien

#75. When you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, you possess a resource that can give you abundant life through the longest siege of the enemy. The enemy can camp at your doorstep for an indefinite period of time and it won't matter to you. The Holy Spirit is your indwelling source of

David Jeremiah

#76. It just takes time,
it just takes patience, he says,
just like it does with people. Don't give up
until you have done everything to change
yourself. Then, he says as he sits
on the doorstep, only then you can start
blaming others.

Mariko Nagai

#77. Charity begins at your doorstep; do not forget to open your heart.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#78. With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.

Frances O'Grady

#79. So you see, when war comes to one's village, one's doorstep, it isn't tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.

Daphne Du Maurier

#80. We're on the enemy's doorstep. We're being asked to split up. Isn't that how people get killed in horror movies?

Rick Riordan

#81. Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

Robert Morley

#82. "Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.

Anonymous

#83. I'm not about to cede control to Fate, waiting around for Mr. Right to show up on my doorstep.

Julie James

#84. (Her husband's departure ... ) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From Butterfly on F street

Edward P. Jones

#85. The new is always at our doorstep when we feel most lost.

Janet Rebhan

#86. People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ
they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.

Peter E. Gillquist

#87. In the morning, I wake up and find a pomegranate on my doorstep: red and perfect, round as the world itself.

Katie Cotugno

#88. Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Jonah Lomu

#89. The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

Jaggi Vasudev

#90. You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

Bear Grylls

#91. Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.

Liz Williams

#92. But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

David Axelrod

#93. 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.

Malcolm X

#94. When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

Emmy Rossum

#95. Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one else to blame. If you will and you do, the world will beat a path to your doorstep ...

James A. Murphy

#96. Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

Hari Kumar K

#97. [There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#98. Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

Confucius

#99. The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.

Barbara Hall

#100. When you greeted me with a gun on your doorstep, it's nice to know you meant it.

Marissa Meyer