- Happy
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- 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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was dedicated to God before I was born by Momma and Daddy, and I was raised in a very traditional Southern Baptist home.
- Desktop
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.
- Nov 07, 2020
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020