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Floors Quotes

Grounded lines about the floors beneath work, home, and memory.

This collection of floors quotes ranges from thermal vents on the ocean floor to the floors people mop during a first job, showing how the same word can span science and everyday work.

I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in boiling pools at Yellowstone, around thermal vents at the floors of the oceans, or on Mars, where NASA...

Quotes by Will Hobbs

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking of - like Rembrandt, van Gogh or Gauguin. Some of those guys, they got whole floors...

Quotes by Vic Mensa

As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as...

Quotes by Therese Fowler

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Quotes by Robert Herjavec

Age Quotes

For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get....

Quotes by Rich Sommer

Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here,...

Quotes by Pharrell Williams

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

Quotes by Peter Billingsley

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Quotes by Oscar Levant

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make...

Quotes by Meshell Ndegeocello

Art Quotes

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

I joined a gym when I was 11, agreed to seeing a dietitian aged 15, and I remember being a teenager and going to shops, only to find that as a size 16, the clothes were hidden at the back...

Quotes by Layla Moran

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the...

Quotes by Lance Loud

I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

Quotes by Freddie Gibbs

The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater...

Quotes by Erik Hassle

Bedroom Quotes

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.

Quotes by Debbie Wasserman Schultz

HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of a tech startup should look like: exposed beams, frosted glass, a big atrium, modern art hanging in the...

Quotes by Daniel Lyons

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Quotes by Chellie Pingree

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

When I was young, we had nothing. The carpets and upholstery in the palace were full of holes. The floors creaked. Everything was so old. Yes, we had a piano, an upright given to us by the Fine Arts Department....

Quotes by Bhumibol Adulyadej

Being Quotes

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Quotes by Alain Robert

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are collected on this floors page?
This page gathers quotes that use the word floors in very different settings, from the ocean floor to the floor of a first workplace, showing how one everyday word carries many meanings.
Why do readers search for floors quotes?
People look for floors quotes because floors are such a familiar, grounded image that they work well as relatable captions for posts about work, home life, or simply staying grounded.
Does this collection touch on art or creative life?
Yes, one quote reflects on painters who went unrecognized in their own lifetimes, linking the idea of overlooked labor and unnoticed spaces to broader questions about art and legacy.
Is there a scientific angle to any of these quotes?
One quote describes extremophile bacteria discovered near thermal vents on the ocean floor, giving the collection a science-minded entry alongside its more personal, everyday lines.
Do any quotes here connect floors to early work experience?
Several lines recall first jobs such as mopping floors, using that early, humbling work as a starting point for reflecting on the many jobs and paths a person can go on to take.

Other lines trace how the spaces we move through, from a kitchen floor to a home studio, quietly shape the ordinary rhythm of daily Being.