Habitation Quotes

48 quotes by 42 authors

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath… — John Owen
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread… — John Ruskin
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation. — Eudora Welty
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Linda Gregerson
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. — Barry Commoner
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage… — John Flavel
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy… — William Blake
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. — John Smith
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your… — Wilferd Peterson
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere… — Mark Twain
We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the… — Patricia Hampl
I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a… — Charles Spurgeon
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere… — Philip K. Dick

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