- Love
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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
- Hardware
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
- Butterfly
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.
- Guinea
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides buying a mansion or something, everything I wanted I always got. I'm just ready to invest it and save it. Otherwise, life can hit you, but you can't go back to working at Home Depot. That's why I always just be stacking.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.
- Coming Home
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- Nov 07, 2020