- Great
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home,' it was the first time I saw drawings that looked like me.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
- Foreign Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is calm. Once I get home from practice, I just want to spend time with my family.
- Corrosive
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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- Nov 07, 2020