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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
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom was a very creative and artistic person and papa is a producer. I've grown up in an extremely colourful environment at home and I haven't been exposed to anything else.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home wasn't built in a day.
- Herding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone's always shocked that I'm still based in Yorkshire, but going home there is my sanctuary. Home is where the heart is, and my mother, sister and brother are there, and my partner.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Australia because it's a different time of day so I'm asleep through any problems back home.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
- Aimless
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020