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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
My home life, growing up, was like tumbling inside a washing machine as I shuttled around the middle of Kentucky with my mother. She was never content to stay in one place, or with one man, for too long. She was as smart as she was independent, though, and always landed some job that brought in a little money.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books.
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- Nov 07, 2020