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Quotes About Home

At every wedding someone stays home.
~ Sarah Dessen
One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was a door. With Kirsten, it was the front one to our house, through which she was always coming in or out, usually in mid-sentence, a gaggle of friends trailing behind her. Whitney's was the one to her bedroom, which she preferred to keep shut between her and the rest of us, always.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was just the lightest dusting, and another person might have mistaken it for something else. But I knew where I came from. No matter where I was, or what got me there, I would always feel at home when I touched sand.
~ Sarah Dessen
Yo había pensado que no tenia una casa. Pero justo ahí, justo en ese momento, me di cuenta de que estaba equivocada. Hogar no era una casa, o un pueblo en un mapa. Era donde sea que estuviera la gente que amas, donde sea que estén juntos. No un lugar, sino un momento, y luego otro, construyéndose uno sobre otro como ladrillos para construir un sólido refugio que te gustaría conservar por el resto de tu vida, sin importar a donde vayas.
~ Sarah Dessen
Because in the summers, the world came back to the lake," she'd reply. "And that was when it felt like home.
~ Sarah Dessen
Home is... not a place but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.
~ Sarah Dessen
No matter where I was, or what got me there, I would always feel at home when I touched sand.
~ Sarah Dessen
El hogar no era una casa concreta, ni una ciudad en el mapa, sino el lugar donde están las personas a las que quieres, siempre que están juntos. No es un espacio, sino la suma de los momentos que se van construyendo, uno sobre otro, como ladrillos, un refugio sólido que llevas contigo toda tu vida, vayas donde vayas.
~ Sarah Dessen
Approaching a door, at home, or on the road: Puppy must sit, coming in and going out. Greeting: Puppy should grab a toy from the basket and only be greeted after they've calmed down enough to sit or roll on their back Mealtime manners: Puppy must sit and wait for puppy food and also lie on a mat with a bone during your meals. After-hours TV/computer: Puppy should lie on a mat and chew a toy.
~ Sarah Hodgson
ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually read at home and liked it
~ Sarah Littman
Finding Will, loving Will, had been a revelation. Like finding the other half of herself. Having his grounded wisdom to draw on when she needed it, knowing that no matter what, she had him to come home to, that his laughter was part of her world and that the passion and courage and joy he ignited in her were here to stay, had transformed her perception of herself.
~ Sarah Mayberry
watches we wear from home
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Really?" I say. "Hmm. I guess it's possible that she's not home. It's not nighttime yet. The original story doesn't take place until tomorrow, so she might not even be around right now. She could be out luring children with bubble gum or something.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Yes, they're a little biased there," I agree. Mike smiles at this understatement, knowing as I do that saying they're a little biased in Mudd's favor at the Mudd-family-run Mudd home in Maryland is like saying cheese steaks are kind of associated with Philadelphia.
~ Sarah Vowell
He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relations with the infinite, was entirely at home in the finite. Able to carry the jewel of faith, making the motions of the infinite, and as a result needing nothing but the finite and the usual. Whereas others sought the extraordinary in the world. Or wished to be what was gaped at.
~ Saul Bellow
Well, we were here, first-generation Americans, our language was English and a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us.
~ Saul Bellow
The position taken by Foreign Minister Maurice Jobert in the October War of 1973 was that the Palestinian Arabs had a natural and justified desire to "go home." I expressed, politely, the hope that the other attitude, the revolutionary one, would not be abandoned.
~ Saul Bellow
Life became much more difficult with the Intifada, and my wife and I began to regret that we hadn't rented in the Israeli half. The rent's a little high, but we would have managed with a smaller home.
~ Sayed Kashua
The kids' rooms are not decorated. There are no pictures or posters on the doors or the walls, and that is true of all the rooms of the house in which my wife and kids live and the dorm room in which I spend most of my time. We are careful not to leave any marks, because you never know when it'll be time to get up and go.
~ Sayed Kashua
Children are accustomed to a continual stream of criticisms and praise, but adults can go weeks without a compliment while enduring criticism both at work and at home. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise. "Wow.
~ Scott Adams
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our on country or our own religion or our home town or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.
~ Scott Carpenter
When we begin to see that heaven awaits us in the Mass, we begin already to bring our home to heaven. And we begin already to bring heaven home with us.
~ Scott Hahn
It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Yerinde duramayan bir gezgin bile sonunda vatan?n? özler ve kulübesinde, e?inin koynunda, çocuklar?n?n aras?nda, hepsine ekmek bulma u?ra??s?nda dünyan?n enginlerinde bo?una arad??? sevinci bulur.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe