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- Nov 07, 2020
Beds Quotes
Quotes on shelter, home, and everyday life
One of the more striking beds quotes here recalls a childhood in a homeless shelter, sharing two bunk beds among five people — a stark reminder of how Family and shelter intersect.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in a homeless shelter. That’s what I mean when I say I’ve been in situations where people need help. I don’t remember my exact age, but I remember there were two bunk beds and five of us in there: me, my three sisters and my mum.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
- Cliffs
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rehearsing a scene beds a role into you. But sometimes, if you over-rehearse it without unearthing any new meaning in it, you can suddenly forget your lines. You realise that you are on a stage, not in the real world. The scene's emotional power, and your immersion in it, disappears.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
- Angola
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
My marriage is far from perfect. We're not hand-holdy and soft. We are snippy and bickery. We sleep in separate beds because we have no tolerance of each other's night-time idiosyncrasies.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision engineering. We manufacture all sorts, from beds to biscuits and from carpets to lathes. We also have some of the best fish and chips in the country and some of the best curries in the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020