Accidents Quote by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Download Open image “To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.” — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Happiness Life Locality Seems
The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.” — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Live every moment—no matter where you are and what you're doing—as if it were truly important... you must strive to be in a good… — David Elliot Cohen Copy Share Image
“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the sensation was… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“It is strange how intricately life hangs in the scales, and how unrelated events and single decisions alter the outcomes. Some remote land ten… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors,… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle.… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
