- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
The news of Mubarak stepping down came as I was sitting in my Jordanian home away from home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sold my flat in Glasgow, I bought a little cottage on the North Yorkshire coast. Whenever we go up from London to stay there, I'm just like, 'I'm home! I'm home in Bronte-land!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I came to Salt Lake City, I didn't want to go anywhere else. It was home sweet home for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.
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- Nov 07, 2020