- 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
What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The home ministry's role should be focused. There are so many items under it today; it has to look after even official languages. There should be a minister looking after internal security, and the remaining things should go under another ministry. Things like official languages can be looked after by the human resources development ministry.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want to go to a party. I just want to stay home and read my murder mysteries and try to write and cook dinner.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
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- Nov 07, 2020