"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."

Home, Living, Now

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."

Exlpore more Home quotes

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

Home, Business, Christian, Luxury

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Home, Work, Mother, Being

"I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

Home, Time, Games

"Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious-every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Home, Happiness, Life, Truth, Power

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Home, Artist, Europe, Paris

"Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior."

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, American Author

Home, Behavior, Being, Limits

"My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly."

Erika Slezak, American Actress

Home, Work, Husband, Kids

"A home without books is a body without soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Home, Soul, Body, Books

"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

Home, Environment, Feeling, Style

Explore more quotes by Maya Lin

"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

Idea

"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."

Architecture

"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."

Architecture

"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."

Thinking

"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."

Deep

"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."

Childhood

"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."

American

"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."

War

"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

Politics

"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."

Life