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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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“I missed my home – like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country – culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.” -Orlando Bloom
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“Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.” -Amelia Earhart
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“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.” -Chief Joseph
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“The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.” -Colin Chapman
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“Since I’m always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.” -Chris Brown
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“That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.” -Max Muller
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“There’s a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There’s such a continuity between everything that I don’t really care what form it…
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“I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.” -Dorothy L. Sayers
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“Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.” -Bob Filner
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“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” -James Joyce
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“The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.” -Havelock Ellis
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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” -James A. Michener
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“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.” -Josh Billings
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“Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something.” -Will Cuppy
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“Here’s kind of my motto – if you’re not happy at home, you’re not happy anywhere else.” -Angie Harmon
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“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.” -Pam Brown
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“Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.” -Kevin O’Leary
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“I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.” -Dolly Parton
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“The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.” -Kim Kardashian
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“People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to ‘The Art of Happiness’ by the Dalai Lama.” -Carmen Electra
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“I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.” -Ida B. Wells
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“We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our…
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“Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.” -Alice Walker
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“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” -Gloria Steinem
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“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.” -William Hazlitt
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“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.” -Jeremy Taylor
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“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?” -Samuel Goldwyn
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“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I’d do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.” -Steve Martin
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“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.” -Ben Kingsley
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“I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.” -Stephen King
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“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” -James Madison
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“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” -Hermann Hesse
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“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.” -James Dobson
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“Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?” -Bill Maher
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“So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.” -Henry Rollins
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“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” -John Stuart Mill
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“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.” -Robert Orben
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“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.” -Doug Larson
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“Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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“If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.” -Marilyn Manson
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“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” -J. K. Rowling
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“I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.” -Quentin Tarantino
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“I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‘Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.’” -Jimmy Carter
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“American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.” -William J. Clinton
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“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.” -Mickey Mantle
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“If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.” -Thomas Fuller
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“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.” -Samuel Johnson
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“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” -Elmer Davis
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“The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.” -David Suzuki
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“Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.” -Todd Tiahrt
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“I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.” -Samuel Butler
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“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.” -Dick Gregory
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“And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.” -Michelle Obama
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“Maria is the best reason to come home.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“And when the day arrives I’ll become the sky and I’ll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.” -Trent Reznor
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“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.” -Edward Abbey
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“There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.” -Sitting Bull
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“There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them.” -Anthony Edwards
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“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?” -Jackie Kennedy
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“If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don’t know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.” -Mark Burnett
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“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.” -George Eliot
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“The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.” -Seth Godin
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“If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.” -Vance Havner
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“I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That’s rewarding.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely…
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“A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.” -James H. Douglas
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“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.” -Bette Davis
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“I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.” -Marie Corelli
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“To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.” -Olivia Newton-John
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“I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.” -Andy Warhol
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“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” -Charles Dickens
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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Now, I know there are many Americans who say, ‘Get out of Afghanistan. Bring ’em all home.’ And there are others who say, ‘Put in hundreds of thousands of more.’” -Hillary Clinton
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“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.” -Sigmund Freud
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“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” -Lin Yutang
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“I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.” -Jean Cocteau
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“What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?” -Orison Swett Marden
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“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” -Edward R. Murrow
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“It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be…
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“My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.” -Billy Graham
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“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” -Lily Tomlin
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“You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.” -Mike Tyson
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“The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.” -Rick Warren
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“I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases… is an old-fashioned idea.” -Ron Paul
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“You see much more of your children once they leave home.” -Lucille Ball
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“We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we’re falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.” -Jude Law
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“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.” -Richard Bach
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“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.” -Ogden Nash
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“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“A home without books is a body without soul.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.” -Bill Copeland
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“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.” -Rumi
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“Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don’t hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.” -Billy Sunday
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“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.” -Phyllis Diller
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“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?” -Eliza Dushku
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“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.” -Plato
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“The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.” -Bob Dylan
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“I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.” -Steven Wright
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“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.” -Woody Allen
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“On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.” -Joel Osteen
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“Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad!” -Marcus Garvey
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“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.” -Mae West
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“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.” -Bo Bennett
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“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.” -Tupac Shakur
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“I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.” -W. C. Fields
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“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.” -Voltaire
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“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” -Margaret Mead
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“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.” -Steve Jobs
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“On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.” -Dan Lipinski
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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” -Maya Angelou
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“At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.” -Muhammad Ali
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“Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.” -Dalai Lama
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” -Winston Churchill
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“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.” -Eminem
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“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.” -Henny Youngman
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“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” -Tecumseh
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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” -Twyla Tharp
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“There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” -Freya Stark
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“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.” -Earl Wilson
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“I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.” -Frank Langella
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“The prospect of going home is very appealing.” -David Ginola
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“I’m lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him…
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“The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.” -Edward Coke
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“The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.” -Adolf Loos
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“I’m going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they’ll be ripe.” -Ryan Stiles
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“When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.” -Tony Stewart
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“I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.” -Sarah Brightman
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“Home is one’s birthplace, ratified by memory.” -Henry Anatole Grunwald
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“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” -Mother Teresa
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” -Melody Beattie
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“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” -Martin Luther
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“Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.” -John F. Kennedy
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“If your house is burning, wouldn’t you try and put out the fire?” -Imran Khan
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“Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.” -Channing Pollock
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“Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst
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“Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.” -Anthea Turner
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“We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.” -George Pataki
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“There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.” -Kenny Guinn
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“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.” -Phillips Brooks
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“Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.” -William Jerome
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“I feel like I’ve never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don’t know exactly where I fit in… There’s always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.” -Sam Shepard
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“Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.” -John Cheever
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“There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.” -Rosalynn Carter
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“The home is the chief school of human virtues.” -William Ellery Channing
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“Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.” -Meister Eckhart
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“I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.” -Pope John Paul II
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“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.” -Charles M. Schulz
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