- Dangerous Place
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in their twenties, move back home.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been a long time since I lived in Michigan, but I did grow up there for 18 to 20 years of my life. It does feel my home state.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.
- Nov 07, 2020
Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020