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Door Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never…
- Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches…
- Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
- The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that…
- Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
- God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Every wall is a door.
- Reality is a sliding door.
- Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter,…
- If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house…
- At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock…
- He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely…
- If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
More Door Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? — Tyra Banks
- I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of… — Drew Barrymore
- Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. — John Barrymore
- I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali
- In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez
- When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do… — Alexander Graham Bell
- Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell
- Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. — Saul Bellow
- We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a… — Robert Benchley
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger