Quotes About Home

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

I still live in Des Moines.

It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home.

If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.

Every child deserves a family of their own to provide the love, support, and strong foundation they need.

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

We have set up our home to be designed for taking care of children.

A home that does not have smart home capabilities is not as desirable when selling.

I'm writing a book, and there's not even space for a desk in our home. So I spent my hard-earned book money and rented the small apartment downstairs from us.

I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.

What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to say 'never again' when it came to Waterford. To go through that again in any of the places I call home would destroy me.

I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

I appreciate Detroit so much.

There's no place I love more than Detroit.

I was born and raised in Detroit.

I'm from Detroit, but Chicago is a second home for me.

I like Detroit.

Iraq is just like New York. It's just like Detroit. It's where people live and raise their families.

The city of Detroit is always home, and I'm very proud of where I'm from.

I'm born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You've got to be from somewhere.

Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you.