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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All this talk of equality remains merely on paper. In real life, women are still bound by several psychological shackles and emotional boundaries imposed on them by their families and others. If a girl comes home late, she is asked 100 questions, whereas boys are not answerable for anything. And this prevails across segments.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man must know how to cook; this is the first thing that we are taught back home.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rather love going home after a long day at work to my husband with a fresh mind.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We too have arguments, but we don't really have any fights. Aamir and I don't carry our fights home.
- Equal Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take comfort in the fact that it is a beautiful universe, and we belong here and that we fit. This is our home.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you play-act for a living, it's better not to carry on doing it when you get home.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020