- 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
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duffy is go hard or go home. It's just a concept that I wanted to have when we're doing different things. When me and my dancers go in, we usually go hard or we go home. We're not here to play. We go duffy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two strongest points. I've always been a people person. I love people; I like to be with people, and when I got on stage, I was home free.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
- Jungle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't party. I'm a total homebody. I like hanging out with my cat, and I've actually been known to stay home and knit.
- Leaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.
- Toxic
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- Nov 07, 2020