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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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally on a Saturday I come home wreathed in media glamour having interviewed a former Krankie or someone, and suddenly I am back in the world of orange blossom and bells.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Volunteering is a way to quickly become part of your new community, make connections, and start to feel at home. That doesn't just benefit the individual. It benefits the company, too.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found that the largest settlement of Hebridean islanders outside of Scotland was right there in North Carolina.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020