Doorstep Quotes

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. (Confucius)
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own. View quote
Margaret Mead
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. View quote
Paul Strand
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila. View quote
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one's own doorstep was a shock. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty. View quote
John Grierson
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there. View quote
Jonah Lomu
I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time. View quote
Matthew Rhys
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. View quote
Nina Fedoroff
Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it. (Robert Towne)
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom. View quote
Richard Dooling
If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help, I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is. View quote
Cat Stevens
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day. View quote
Nick Turse
You broke my heart, Danny boy Not your fault, Danny boy I was had at the doorstep Played, like a two to a four-set Had, like poor Job in the bible by God. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy. View quote
Liam Gallagher
You can have Manhattan I know it's for the best Gather up the avenues and leave them on your doorstep. View quote
Sara Bareilles
My drug period was between the age of 17 and 18. That was a time when I was experimenting with a lot of things, I was experimenting with sleep deprivation, fasting. The longest fast I ever did was 12 days. You go that long without food and you hallucinate. I would take this powder made out of guarana seed, my friend Mary would bake it up like cocoa in muffins and leave them on my doorstep. My drinking period was when I was 13, 14. Drugs fascinated me for a short period of time but not any more. A glass of wine puts me in a weird enough state. View quote
Natalie Merchant
ISIS is not at our doorstep. Illegal immigrants are not only at our doorstep, but millions of them are already through the door, murdering far more Americans than ISIS ever will. View quote
Ann Coulter
"We've had death threats", Pete says, "saying, 'You're evil and your days are numbered." What was it, "Don't panic but be scared". Someone shat on our doorstep once and nailed a sparrow to our basement door. I don't mind, me. I'll out-weird any stalker. View quote
Pete Doherty
[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result-and have been since at least the time of Odysseus-of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret. (Michael Chabon)
Will you grant the audience?" "Of cour-" Jarlaxle started to answer, but Entreri grasped his shoulder and shifted in front. "Tell King Gareth we do not enjoy the spectacle of an army at our doorstep unannounced. But even so, Gareth may enter my home. We have many tall towers here, as you can see. Please tell Gareth, from me, that he is most welcomed to dive headlong off of any of them. View quote
R. A. Salvatore
Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep. View quote
Sean Parker
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. View quote
Thomas Merton
The present time Latin America is going through, with its impressive natural and human resources, devoid of racial and religious conflicts, is a unique moment, and I believe that Argentina and Argentines are at the doorstep of an unprecedented opportunity. View quote
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner