Quotes About Settling Down

#1. Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#2. We were all nomads once, and crossed the deserts and the seas on tracks that could not be detected, but were clear to those who knew the way. Since settling down and rooting like trees, but without the ability to make use of the wind to scatter our seed, we have found only infection and discontent.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Albert Camus

#4. I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

Arj Barker

#5. Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

Liam Neeson

#6. To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

William Osler

#7. Michaels went upstairs to start cooking while Judge walked and catered to his dog. It felt oddly domestic. He smiled without even realizing it. Maybe he did like the idea of settling down, just had to have the right guy put those thoughts there. Judge chewed on his cane.

A.E. Via

#8. The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

Larry Eskridge

#9. As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.

Amber Frey

#10. Why do people call it settling down when it's a man and finding the right one when it's a woman?

Mary Jane Hathaway

#11. I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that ... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

Kenny Chesney

#12. In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

Vanessa Mae

#13. I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Marilyn Manson

#14. Rusty, Dad needs to work and I'm going out, so you're babysitting."
"I like that word," Rusty said, settling down for a nap. "Come, babies. Let us sit together.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#15. I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

Yuvraj Singh

#16. I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

Hugh Bonneville

#17. Though everyone I knew seemed to be either settling down or looking to settle down, I was never on a deep-sea fishing expedition to find a boyfriend. And a "great catch," well, that seemed to be begging for heartache.

Julie Buxbaum

#18. I did not hesitate to quit my courses and leave my apartment, feeling as detached from everything as only at twenty-three one feels, when all is temporary and settling down means to stagnate

Edgar Cantero

#19. I was happy to know her in my small, formal, dependent way. And I felt a ravenous grief for nice boys who are too stupid to take care of themselves, and too dumb to remember to check the surrounding brush for snakes before settling down to sleep for the night.

John Darnielle

#20. SPIKE: Settling down is only good for one kind of man.

JESSE: The p*ssy kind?

SPIKE: Nah, the strong sort. You're a strong man, and you're honest. Never thought I'd think about those two words and you in the same sentence.

JESSE: I couldn't be a big d*ck all my life.

Sam Crescent

#21. I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.

Ron Moody

#22. Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Candace Bushnell

#23. There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

Ty Segall

#24. Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.

Gloria Steinem

#25. Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.

Sherman Alexie

#26. It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.

Toni Morrison

#27. I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Amy Winehouse

#28. The biggest issue is simply settling down which most Mr. Goodbar will be inclined to do by their mid-thirties. By this time the average Mr. Goodbar will have an attitude of "been there, done that," with women and thus be more amenable to a monogamous relationship.

Rom Wills

#29. When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if she was settling down, sleeping in the same bed every night, the darkness uninterrupted by any hint of emergency. It had felt as if all her difficulties were over.

Sara Sheridan

#30. Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene lamp and let the ghosts fly their asses off

Jack Kerouac

#31. As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction,
We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way.
Yes, but which way shall we choose?
Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night.

Christopher Paolini

#32. I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

David Ginola

#33. Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

Suzanne Collins

#34. The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chinua Achebe

#35. Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes - like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night
- little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

C.S. Lewis

#36. You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

Denis Leary

#37. Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

G.K. Chesterton

#38. Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

E.L. Konigsburg

#39. Do not be afraid to enter the cloud that is settling down on your life. God is in it. The other side is radiant with His glory.

L.B. Cowman

#40. Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

Margaret Atwood

#41. Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

Ian K. Smith

#42. I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don't worry about getting married, don't worry about settling down, don't worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.

Kelly Cutrone

#43. I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.

Sherri Rifkin

#44. I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.

Ruth Rendell

#45. She should get a divorce and settle down.

Jack Paar

#46. I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

Chase Utley

#47. Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

Austin O'Malley

#48. Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

David Levithan

#49. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?

Soseki Natsume

#50. It seemed that it was changing subtly, cooking itself down under the pressure of time, silent invisible flakes settling to form a mulch, a crystalline essence of discarded technology, flowering secretly in the Sprawl's waste places.

William Gibson

#51. Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Jeremiah

#52. The ass that's officially owned by me?" Gavin caressed his hands down her waist, settling on said ass. "This one? Ah, yes. Yes, this one. I love this ass."
"Owned?" Emily playfully questioned.
"Yes ... owned. Never to be leased by another. I'm king landlord, sweets.

Gail McHugh

#53. Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.

Tana French

#54. Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

Poul Anderson

#55. If you want to be happy, settle amidst the trouble. But if you want to be better, fight with the trouble.

Sarvesh Jain

#56. And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

Emma Donoghue

#57. Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.

Cat Stevens

#58. Sometimes confusion is a necessary way to slow things down until we have within us the strength and courage to find the best and truest answer instead of settling for an easier, quicker one along the way.

John Hunter

#59. I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.

Dale Peck

#60. Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential
whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

Kevin Eikenberry

#61. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.

Mandy Hale

#62. But the world is winding down, and you take what you're given.

M.R. Carey

#63. The question of how things will settle down is the only important question ...

Leo Tolstoy

#64. I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.

Nancy Johnson

#65. Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

Arthur Balfour

#66. Lowering my gaze , I walked to my seat, settling in next to Kriss.
"Seriously America?" she whispered.
I tilted my head in her direction. "I'm sorry?" I replied, feigning confusion.
She put her silverware down, and we stared at each other. "You look trashy."
"Well, you look jealous.

Kiera Cass

#67. We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

Ann Coulter