Proximity Quotes - page 3

It's funny how much of your childhood is about proximity. (Jenny Han)
People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder. View quote
Jenny Han
If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day. View quote
Eric Braeden
My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. View quote
Joshua Malina
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative. View quote
Julian Baggini
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I'm not necessarily in the water. View quote
Shari Sebbens
My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible. View quote
Stana Katic
I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world. View quote
Valerie Cruz
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. View quote
Germaine Greer
Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace. (Charlotte Brontë)
I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank. View quote
Zubin Mehta
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. View quote
Joe Lieberman
The indefinable is the indisputable. The man next door is indefinable, because he is too actual to be defined. And there are some to whom spiritual things have the same fierce and practical proximity; some to whom God is too actual to be defined. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. View quote
Camille Paglia
It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone. View quote
Ellie Goulding
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. View quote
Tariq Ali
To London's Europhiles, Britain is obviously "part of" Europe. But, in the age of jet travel, cellphones, wire transfers and the internet, we are less bound by physical proximity than ever. Yet Britain for the first time in history has chosen to be imprisoned by geography and to disconnect itself from its own culture. View quote
Mark Steyn
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated. View quote
Sun Tzu
My proximity to the sheep, cattle, and geese who are now my neighbors in the country is what has finally turned me into a vegetarian. I talk to these animals when I walk. Sometimes I am lucky enough to make physical contact with them, and as I look into their eyes I see not only the innocence, but also the clear fact that those eyes are no less complicated in their structure than my own. Don't we now have enough tasty things to eat from the garden and all the delicious ways to prepare them? (Mary Tyler Moore)
They were outnumbered, they were surrounded, yet no one had panicked, not one battalion had been caught deployed in column, and not one square had been rattled by the horse-men's proximity. The Light had saved the Seventh Division, and now it was saving itself with a dazzling display of professional soldiering. Pure drill was defeating French verve, and Massena's attack, which had swept around the British right flank with overwhelming force, had been rendered utterly impotent. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
Because of anti-blackness in the United States and Latin America, most of us are either hyper-visible or invisible, or both simultaneously. So many people I've had conversations with don't even know that Latinxs are not a race or that black people exist in Puerto Rico (and throughout all of Latin America) and that we don't all look exactly the same. As a light-skinned black Boricua, I'm often read as racially ambiguous, and because of colorism, I benefit from my proximity to whiteness. I think it's our responsibility (those of us who benefit from light-skinned privilege or racial ambiguity or whiteness) to have a reckoning with race, to do the work to actively address institutional racism, as well as racism and colorism in our everyday lives, not just in the public eye. Otherwise, we are complicit. View quote
Jaquira Díaz
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. View quote
Winston Churchill