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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘home’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” -Dale Carnegie
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“My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That’s what happens when you haven’t been home in eighteen years.” -Lee Trevino
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“You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can’t do that.” -Andrea Jung
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“We talk a lot in our home together about where we’re going, what I’m doing.” -Melinda Gates
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“At home I’ve got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.” -Thom Yorke
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“To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence – we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right…
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“My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.” -Sherman Alexie
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“I think it’s easiest to teach by example. My dad didn’t tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings – like a short fuse – but I’ve learned you can’t come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.” -Chris O’Donnell
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“Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.” -Ray Dalio
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“I love being on stage if I’m not on a set. If I’m at home, I’m usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then…
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“One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can’t do anything to your performance once you’ve laid it on film.” -Amber Heard
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“There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don’t get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don’t get them.” -T. D. Jakes
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“I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I’ve been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I’ve tried to do landscapes a few times.” -Michelle Pfeiffer
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“I’ve gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.” -Fran Drescher
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“During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I…
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“Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?” -Ingrid Newkirk
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“A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.” -Andrew Weil
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“Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.” -Madonna Ciccone
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“I know this sounds generic, but I’m so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.” -Fergie
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“Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” -O. Henry
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“I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn’t smoke in your own home. I don’t care what people do in their home.” -Mike Huckabee
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“After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary’s shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.” -Ginnifer Goodwin
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“When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.” -Portia de Rossi
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“When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men’s clothes.” -Calamity Jane
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“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.” -Robert Neelly Bellah
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“I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.” -Julius Erving
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“For President Obama, ‘home of the brave’ are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president’s policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a…
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“It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.” -Jason Behr
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“I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn’t scare me, but it’s a lonely place, even if you’ve got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn’t get home, if I couldn’t get back to what I consider my real…
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“My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.” -Jet Li
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“Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.” -Ella Maillart
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“But, yeah, I’m really happy when I’m writing. When I’m being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, ‘Oh, this would be great in this script.’…
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“Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother’s, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to…
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“During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.” -Lionel Blue
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“I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.” -Jodie Foster
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“I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, ‘Go buy a postage stamp in London,’ I’ll go and do it.” -Emily Mortimer
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“I had to learn to dance for ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.” -Emily Blunt
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“I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I’m home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I’m in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.” -Nicki Minaj
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“The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?” -James Hillman
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“Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.” -Bear Grylls
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“I only scream and scratch when something’s only ‘really good’ or ‘good’, I want to be great, or let’s go home.” -Jeremy Renner
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“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.” -Stephen Gardiner
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“Nice to see your home fans boo you. That’s what loyal support is.” -Wayne Rooney
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“About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn’t find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren’t good were good.” -Richard Russo
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“The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don’t do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.” -Lindsey Graham
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“I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.” -Jay London
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“Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.” -Dionne Warwick
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“He’s a good tough producer, yes. But I don’t think that he’s unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody’s in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.” -Liza Minnelli
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“My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards – but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.” -Hugh Hefner
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“Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.” -Billie Jean King
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“I’d rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.” -Florence King
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“I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.” -Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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“On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they’d let me know right away.” -John Ratzenberger
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“Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.” -Dave Grohl
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“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: ‘You can go work outside of the house and I’ll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I’ll make some commercials nearby, you know I’ll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at…
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“To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I’m quite the dork, I’d rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn’t get you a girl, does it?” -Wentworth Miller
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“I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.” -Vidal Sassoon
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“Recently I heard a ‘wise guy’ story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It’s an interesting story, but I don’t know twenty-five men I’d want to invite ta a party.” -Joan Crawford
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“But inspiration? – That’s when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? – and fortunately you haven’t. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house that was done many thousands of years ago.” -Arne Jacobsen
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“I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I’m building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.” -Pamela Anderson
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“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, ‘Oh yeah!’ The whole time you’re playing this machine it’s yelling and screaming at you, ‘What you gonna…
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“I think any branding for me is band-related. It’s really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I’m not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I’m at home and not on…
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“But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there’s a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a…
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“In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn’t. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you’re hungry and tired.” -Lee Child
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“Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.” -Arthur Smith
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“I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids’ stuff.” -Katey Sagal
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“I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.” -Kevin Smith
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“Well, I’m not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.” -Jenny Eclair
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“I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home – if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman – and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That’s not what I do. I went as far away…
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“I love my parents. But I’m almost 28 and it’s not fun to be asked, ‘What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?’ It just makes you feel like a kid. It’s this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love…
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“I’m always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don’t get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.” -Willie Stargell
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“I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him.” -Hank Aaron
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“I don’t know of a Democrat – whether they’re a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat – that doesn’t think that it’s important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside…
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“I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-care because I really feel that if I’m at my best, than I’m able to come to my job and really be feeling the best, so if I’m not working out or going on a…
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“All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I’m relatively available, but not to live with.” -Graham Norton
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“I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don’t cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.” -Rene Redzepi
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“When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.” -Paul Theroux
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“Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.” -Sprague Grayden
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“You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the ‘Others.’” -Mira Nair
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“Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn’t an option for me currently.” -Tori Spelling
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“This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.” -Donny Osmond
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“I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I’m back home.” -Josh Hutcherson
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“It’s not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I’ll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with…
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“When we started the show, ‘Dallas’ was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR’s home town.” -Larry Hagman
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“I think because my life is so insane and it’s constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out.” -Sean Hayes
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“I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.” -Amitabh Bachchan
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“I speak relatively little, except when I’m at home and I’m asking for things.” -Roger Moore
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“I practice yoga at home to a TV show called ‘Inhale,’ taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that’s how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to…
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“When I was a kid I didn’t feel like I fit in because – this is really silly and I probably shouldn’t say it, but, I didn’t think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn’t think anything was…
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“Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.” -Cameron Crowe
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“It’s hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be ‘Stupid Sally.’ Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don’t make the most money they need to be able…
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“You can’t control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you’re going to get photographed. Whereas if you’re at home, walking down the street you probably won’t. It’s something I’ve learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.” -Ashley Greene
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“When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.” -Dominic Monaghan
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“The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.” -Potter Stewart
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“My home town is very small and very remote and we don’t have a movie house.” -Tommy Lee Jones
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“Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.” -Henry…
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“Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.” -Ellsworth Huntington
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“Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.” -G. Gordon Liddy
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“It’s easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they’re all at home. In basketball, they’re on the road all the time.” -Khloe Kardashian
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“One thing I’ve been happy as peach pie about – because I’m all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home – is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.” -Michelle Bachelet
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“I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger’s syndrome.” -Gary Numan
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“I don’t know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can’t play there, you should be home with your mama.” -Karl Malone
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“I’m not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I’ll say, ‘It tastes like chicken.’ I mean, that’s not what people think of when they think of wine, but that’s what it tastes like to me and it hits home.” -Gary Vaynerchuk
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“My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn’t some heroic thing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t confusing or difficult – especially that question of how you find a balance.” -Jennifer Garner
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“This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I’m doing.” -Brandy Norwood
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“No, let’s make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.” -John Boehner
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“Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.” -Neil Sheehan
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“Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.” -Debbie Stabenow
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“Every woman I’ve had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I’m at home, I clam up and won’t discuss anything intimate or personal.” -Jarvis Cocker
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“In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.” -Karen Armstrong
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“At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they’re half Blue Heelers, and then there’s Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.” -Chris Hemsworth
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“It’s like, now you’re actually complaining because you’re making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that’s going to pay you that.” -Eric Davis
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“After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.” -John James Audubon
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“In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author… I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.” -Leslie Banks
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“It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.” -Major R. Owens
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“Power doesn’t have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children’s lives.” -Jill Scott
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“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.” -Chaim Potok
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“Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don’t have to take it home with you at night. It’s the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.” -Robert Carlyle
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“I’m very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.” -Nick Clegg
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“I am reasonably happy. I didn’t find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.” -Craig Ferguson
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“The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.” -Fareed Zakaria
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“I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.” -Isabel Allende
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“A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.” -Andrew Vachss
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“My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.” -Steve Nash
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“I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.” -Ben Affleck
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“I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.” -Steven Gerrard
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“The day I finished ‘Twilight,’ I came home and started bulking up. For ‘New Moon,’ I’m 30 pounds heavier than I was in ‘Twilight.’” -Taylor Lautner
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“By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.” -Esther Williams
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“When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?” -Jane Smiley
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“In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.” -Robert Morgan
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“I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.” -Quincy Jones
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“My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I’m working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don’t smoke is when I’m home. I didn’t even realize I’d become a smoker.” -Dennis Franz
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“Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.” -Roald Dahl
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“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.” -Thomas Friedman
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“A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home.” -Leighton Meester
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“Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don’t think it’ll happen – and that’s fine. It’s kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.”…
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“As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters – some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home – seem more determined to prevent that happening.” -Lucy Powell
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“I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they’re affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they’re just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!” -Joaquin Phoenix
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“When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.” -Shawn Johnson
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“I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.” -Dawn French
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“New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.” -Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
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“The aesthetic came along the way, I think – just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I’d wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I’d wear it. That’s…
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“Confronting a stadium audience, you can’t see the whites of their eyes. It’s just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can’t see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.” -Rowan Atkinson
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“I can’t grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don’t bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.” -Bobby Flay
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“Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot…
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“Once you’re halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.” -Janis Ian
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“At home it’s all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don’t want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I’ll go out for a drink with the girls.” -Sadie Frost
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“I really don’t like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.” -Anna Chlumsky
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“With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.” -Terry Eagleton
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“I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.” -Bjorn Lomborg
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“I’ve never had WiFi at home. I’m too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.” -Dave Eggers
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“Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.” -Peter O’Toole
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“My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.” -Novak Djokovic
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“I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.” -Jewel
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“I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.” -Blanche Lincoln
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“I’ve done a lot of partying in my time because I didn’t want to go home and I didn’t know what to do.” -Natalie Imbruglia
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“I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.” -Ville Valo
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“I don’t want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn’t go out that night. What you’re doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.” -Seann William Scott
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“My favorite show is America’s Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I’m laughing my head off!” -Corbin Bleu
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“I’m kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that’s just how I am.” -Kristi Yamaguchi
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“I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room – and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.”…
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“Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.” -Lance Morrow
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“Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.” -Gary Bauer
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“I’m just like so many women – I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, ‘What am I really supposed to wear under this?’ So it was a frustrated consumer moment.” -Sara Blakely
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“When I’m home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family – the TV was off. I think it’s important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.” -Cat Cora
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“Events at home, at work, in the street – these are the bases for a story.” -Naguib Mahfouz
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“I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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“And I came back and it was great, ‘cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.” -Ringo Starr
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“From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed. People keep saying, ‘Oh, you’re a single mom.’ I’m like, ‘Actually, I’m not. I’ve got two boys helping.’” -Charlize Theron
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“The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I’m always at home – yea, I’m always at Om.” -Eden Ahbez
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“A girl’s got to do what she’s got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning ’til the cows come home, then so be it.” -Cat Deeley
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“I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.” -Stephan Jenkins
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