Four Walls Quotes

• I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Home, Thinking

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• Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Wall, Women

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• I am sick of four walls and a ceiling
  I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

  Richard Hovey

  Wall, Sky, Sick

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• My family's the most important thing in my life.

  Joe Namath

  Family, Winning, Relatives And Friends

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• Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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• Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

  Margaret Barber

  Wall, Vision, Four

  Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”

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• All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

  Doris Betts

  Wall, Writing, Feelings

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• I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

  Washington Irving

  Wall, Writing, Mind

  Washington Irving (1869). “Irving's Works”, p.382

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• Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Wall, Dancing

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• My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wall, Home, House

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831”

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• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Wall, Giving

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• The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

  Al Lopez

  Wall, Player, Four

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• An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Four, Pockets

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, March 11, 1892.

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Wall, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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• I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

  The Weeknd

  Wall, Years, World

  "Song: Kiss Land". September 10, 2013.

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• The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Marriage, Fashion, Jobs

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• The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Laughter, Children, Wall

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• That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.

  Vladimir Bartol

  Stars, Wall, Thinking

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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• A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.

  Mo Yan

  Wall, Moon, Clouds

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• The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Book, Glowing

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