Top 44 Cabin Quotes

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

I found the success of ‘In a Dark, Dark Wood’ really distracting when I was writing ‘The Woman in Cabin 10,’ but in a way, the fact that ‘Cabin 10’ was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing ‘The Lying Game.’

Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it’s sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it’s a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

I joke that I’m in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won’t be joking anymore.

When you look at the history of slavery in the United States, and you see the impact that ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ had, culture sometimes is the only way that we can put people’s eyes on an emotional truth and make them feel why something has to change.

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

There is so much to sailing a ship. There’s about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and knowing what each one of those does, it takes a long time, and that’s why you have these cabin boys that start on the ship, and they learn throughout the years, and that’s why it takes so long to captain one.

We got together as a group to come up with the idea for ‘Toy Story 3’ in the same cabin where we dreamed up ‘Toy Story.’

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn’t get ‘Cabin Fever’ made that fast I thought I’d failed.

I grew up with a cabin so we’d always go out and hunt and fish and all that good stuff. All of the cliche Southern things one would imagine.

Literally, I don’t have a television. So I don’t really know what’s happening pop-culturally. I read the ‘New York Times.’ And there’s one worldwide cabin blog that I look at.

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

Rubio and Cruz bring with them only in America personal stories that rival the ‘log cabin’ narratives of presidential candidates the 19th Century. They are Hispanic-American children of immigrants.

I have always been ‘small town.’ I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent two years in a log cabin on the Appalachian Trail. We lived outside of York in Red Lion, which is an amazing town. It’s perpetually 1982 in that town.

In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina.

Every major press organization works out of its own little space in the White House. Picture a mini cruise-ship cabin, or a row of four seats on an airplane: that’s about all the space we have. You spend hundreds of hours inches away from your colleagues.

BottleRock has these incredible VIP cabins where a chef is preparing sushi for you in your cabin or lounge decorated by Restoration Hardware.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m just memorializing my youth when I spent all this time outdoors. I always envisioned my adult life like I’m going to run every day and live in the woods in a cabin if I can – and here I am living in San Francisco and working in a studio.

That’s what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who’s looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it’s fun, there’s a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I’m too old for. You can’t just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time – I’m not vested.

‘Cabin Fever’ was very much inspired by ‘The Thing.’ It’s really a perfect guy’s horror movie: There’s no love story, it’s just straight-up horror. And it’s so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it’s really terrific.

We had a cabin in the mountains – and I remember, one year around this time, a moose came down the river, and one night he came to our cabin and hung out on the back porch for hours. They’re really, really, really big animals. And dangerous, especially if they’re a momma.

Flight attendants need to think on their feet and walk on their toes. An emergency landing can’t be steered by a pot-bellied cabin crew that crawls or belly-walks.

Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.

In Canada, anything that’s not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.

When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

At the age of 16, when I had my first traning session with the first-team squad, I came into the cabin and there stood Ribery and he said: ‘Come here, sit down. Take the locker beside me.’

From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn’t want to be nice to others got rejected.

I think a lot of the fun of making records, for me, is making each one of them a situation. For example, with ‘Ghost,’ I found a group of people that had an energy together, and we kind of did it in a cabin somewhere.

I’m not gonna do the same, tired, standard ‘I was born in a log cabin…’ kind of book. There’s so much more I want to do.

It is no fun lining up in your own building – as the hockey players say – and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.

Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘Pygmalion.’ My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.

The most remote place I’ve been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours’ boat ride from the nearest settlement.

There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

We have fans that circulate air in the cabin of the module of the space shuttle. They’re running all the time. They’re absolutely necessary because, otherwise, you will breathe your own CO2 and intoxicate yourself quite fast.

I just know that for my honeymoon, I’m not going to go to a cabin in the woods.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but ‘Cabin In The Woods’ cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

For escape, I love popcorn thrillers that you can read in a weekend, like ‘Sharp Objects’ and ‘The Woman in Cabin 10.’

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.