Minding Quotes
62 quotes by 55 authors
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Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office,…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
— Criss Jami
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I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing…
— Ralph Ellison
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You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in…
— Norton Juster
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
— Eric Hoffer
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I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a…
— John Bunyan
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
— Calvin Coolidge
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I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking…
— Mitch Hedberg
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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and…
— Ron Paul
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It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you…
— Bryce Courtenay
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After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we…
— Sarah Dessen
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The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding…
— John Boyne
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
— Langston Hughes
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
— Eric Hoffer
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I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.
— Jenny Valentine
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There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents…
— Julia Glass
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I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and…
— Helen DeWitt
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
— William S. Burroughs
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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
— Robert Jordan
Who Wrote These Minding Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 62 Minding Quotes, led by these top contributors: