- Nov 07, 2020
Home Quotes
On comfort, safety and the pull of staying home.
These quotes look at home as both refuge and responsibility: the shock of no longer feeling safe in a place that once felt untouchable, and a quieter preference for staying in over going out. For more, see our Family quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
- Nov 07, 2020
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone writes differently. I hope to get people energized so they'll want to rush home to write.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020