- Long
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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
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my childhood. It's a part of California that has suffered deeply from the recession with high unemployment and a skyrocketing home foreclosure rate.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.
- Dinner Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's gratifying to know that America can be so much more than the land of the free and home of the rest of us.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at NASA, I had a house on a small private airstrip that we shared between the flying community. I had a hangar in my backyard with my airplane in it so I could just fly from my home.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020