- Amazing
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA - the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies - to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
- Nov 07, 2020
I worry about stuff like getting sick, home invasions, and how animals are in pain but can't tell anyone.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
We FaceTime and Skype. My two older kids got iPods for their birthdays, so they can FaceTime their dad whenever they need him. They always get a six o'clock call right after dinner, and I make sure I talk to each child. Even my 1-year-old gets on the phone and says 'Daddy.' They know my schedule by now and count the days back until I get home.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are there days where I wish I was just at home with my kids? Yeah, most days. But then I look at our accomplishments, and I feel alive; I feel so proud of myself. So it's a very confusing thing to be a working parent.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm feeling comfortable at home, confident in my day-to-day, being healthy and being the best person I can be, MMA is easy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Etsy helps work be more human - you can stay at home and work alongside your kids - and it makes commerce more personal.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020