- People
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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
- Differential
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- Nov 07, 2020
When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come home, my wife is the boss.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I'm back home, I find the flat parts of the course tougher. Because it's flat, I feel it more in my knees.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020