Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Quotes about clinging (16 Quotes)
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
There seems to be a propensity in the human heart that leads men to find fault with their fellows who are placed in high positions. President Heber C. Kimball once illustrated this propensity thus while conversing with a friend, he stooped and picked from the ground a twig, encrusted with mud, for it had recently been raining, and holding it up, said, 'As long as this little twig remained upon the ground it attracted no attention, although it had as much mud clinging to it then as now, but you did not notice it. When I lift it from the earth, however, and hold it aloft, the mud is about all that you can see it is with difficulty that you perceive the twig at all.'
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are.... Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware ... still clinging to things that no longer exist.
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something Thats like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.