"Think of the long trip home. Should we……" — Elizabeth Bishop
"Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?"
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35 Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop has 35 quotes on this site.
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that…
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see…
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
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Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems,…
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
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I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and…
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Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent…
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More Home Quotes
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd…
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason…
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
— Arthur Ashe
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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even…
— Marcel Achard
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
— David Attenborough
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It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,…
— David Attenborough
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
— Jane Austen
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
— Bill Ayers
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