Where We Live Quotes

#1. This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings

Autumn Doughton

#2. I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

Jack Kornfield

#4. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own - the place where we live - and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

Cesare Pavese

#5. No matter who we are, where we live or our status in life, we would never really be able to escape the demands and supplies of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. In a fallacious world where we live; it is much easy to create a God rather than pretending to find one.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are

David Bromstad

#8. Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Robert Hass

#9. Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live.

A.W. Tozer

#10. Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

Toni Morrison

#11. Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

David Byrne

#12. Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Mario Batali

#13. We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#14. You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.

Paul David Tripp

#15. If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

Gaylord Nelson

#16. I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

Sarah Burton

#17. It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Janet Frame

#18. Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

Ziggy Marley

#19. Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Lamar Odom

#20. Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Russell Targ

#21. There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.

Paul David Tripp

#22. 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

#23. Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.

Cindy Crawford

#24. Idris is fine. Great, even. But this is where we live.

Cassandra Clare

#25. Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.

Ann Bancroft

#26. Economic forces, after all, are invisible but for the effect they have on our physical form: where we live, what we eat, what we wear, how we dance.

Ruben Martinez

#27. I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

Terry Tempest Williams

#28. Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

Gustav Heinemann

#29. Like I've told you before, Beverly, I don't care where we live as long as we're together." Vance ... "The Elder Effect

D.L. Given

#30. I will see only what I want to see.
It's possible that's how people get through crisis.
The world where we live is so much in our head.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#31. The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live

Bryant McGill

#32. No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

Louise L. Hay

#33. The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

Marcel Proust

#34. Though I go, I will be present. We are on the other side of everyplace, so that you are never unseen or unheard by us. The Faraway is closer than your next breath. That is where we live. And

Brandon Barr

#35. My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

Michelle Dockery

#36. Christ invites us to remain in touch with the many sufferings of every day and to taste the beginning of hope and new life right there, where we live amid our hurts and pains and brokenness.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#37. In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Shekhar Kapur

#38. This is the moment of the end. This is where we give up hope on reversing time, where we abandon finding a cure to death, where we live in this Theo-less universe, where we say goodbye. But I can't. It is goodbye for most, but not for me. Never me.

Adam Silvera

#39. I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

Cat Winters

#40. And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.

Catherynne M Valente

#41. Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

Tony Benn

#42. Ninety percent of the population spends time imagining their future and forgetting that now is where we live and breathe. The ten percent who live in the present are the ones who have the stories to tell, the ones who live life the way it's meant to be lived.

Everly Drummond

#43. No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Elif Shafak

#44. We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

Fred Shero

#45. Feel your body expanding as you breathe: that is where we live, in the moments between each inhalation and exhalation.

Tan Twan Eng

#46. No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

Anu Garg

#47. We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated. There will never be another setup like the one in which we thrived. Ruin it and we will have lost ourselves, and that is craziness.

William Kittredge

#48. Where we live in the world
is never one place. Our hearts,
those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us
moons before we are ready for them.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#49. The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.

Joanna Macy

#50. Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.

Joy Bryant

#51. It's a dark place, not knowing.
It's difficult to surrender to.
But I guess it's where we live most of the time. I guess it's where we all live, so maybe it doesn't have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.

Nina LaCour

#52. One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Sharon Creech

#53. Carbon monoxide and other pollutants from Asia have been documented on the West Coast since the late 1990s and are actually affecting weather patterns there as well. Global climate change as a result of global industrialization is now a reality, no matter where we live. I

Elizabeth L. Cline

#54. A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

P.C. Cast

#55. Christmas is a time when God showed His love for us, and we're ready to show God's love in the communities where we live and serve. That's the purpose of the church.

Miles McPherson

#56. I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.

Claudia Rankine

#57. What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?

Philip Larkin

#58. I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

Jayma Mays

#59. But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live.

Jess Walter

#60. It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

Graham Cooke

#61. Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

John Henrik Clarke

#62. I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.

Joe Piscopo

#63. We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

Jon Fishman

#64. We have all had times ... when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there ... [I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

Oswald Chambers

#65. A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

Carl Sagan

#66. The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It's not where we live, but life itself.

Dennis Vickers

#67. Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.

Fernando Pessoa

#68. The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.

Stormie O'martian

#69. My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

Sophie Hannah

#70. A real writer has to be able to write about the body. They have to. It's where we live. So

Helen Oyeyemi

#71. And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

Pablo Neruda

#72. The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.

Leo Buscaglia

#73. Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

Harvey MacKay

#74. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

#75. Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Timothy Keller

#76. When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us.

Jon Hurwitz

#77. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

#78. Wishes do not a world make. We do the best we can where we are, every minute, every breath. We make mistakes, and we have to live with them. We try to learn from them. And that is all we can do.

Christie Golden

#79. Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms.

Janeane Garofalo

#80. We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Romola Garai

#81. We live in a world where action is what counts.

Melinda McGraw

#82. If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

Katha Pollitt

#83. Scary things only go on in our minds if we let them. Monsters don't live under beds; in our minds is where they truly reside. Remember that.

Kathryn Perez

#84. We are always ourselves, no matter where we go. That's what the poem is saying, I think. We have to recognize it, and make what we can here. This world, great as it is, is only just another biome we have to live in.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#85. Why do we live in a time where we only say what we feel when it's too late? We have evolved. We can split atoms and cure diseases and travel to other planets. Yet we can't say how we feel. We can't tell one another who we really are and be accepted for it.

M. Jonathan Lee

#86. Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live ... in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Anatole Broyard

#87. My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

Ann Demeulemeester

#88. It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.

Surya Das

#89. I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.

Issa Rae

#90. The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.

Frederick Lenz

#91. You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard that we can keep you safe. This is where you live and this is where those who love you can be found. Outside would not be safe for you. Not yet.

Neil Gaiman

#92. So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

David Suzuki

#93. A cotton-candy knockout, a strawberry sundae sweetheart, and a vanilla soft-serve misfit. We are the youth. And we live in a world where innocence is so short.

YellowBella

#94. Maybe we live in a universe where all you have control over is your own kindness.

Polly Horvath

#95. Believe it or not, the number one fear in America remains public speaking. And, in some ways, I think that is a real shame because we are so blessed to live in a country where we are able to express ourselves, so we should want to do that.

Dana Perino

#96. We live in a world where we rarely speak out and when someone does, often nobody is there to listen.

Jaycee Dugard

#97. We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

Bill Cahan

#98. If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.

Sakyong Mipham

#99. I want to imagine a country where people's wages reflect their hard work, where we have healthcare for everyone, and where every child gets to live up to his or her potential.

Hillary Clinton

#100. There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.

Bill Maher