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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
- Dome
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first football game there as an Atlanta Falcon.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.
- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education - for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020