Quotes About Home

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Almighty Father, hear our cry, As o'er the trackless deep we roam; Be Thou our haven always nigh, On homeless waters, Thou our home.

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, 'You're out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?' But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

Not least for those who are called foreigners, for they are not foreigners. For, while the various segments of the Earth give different people a different country, the whole compass of this world gives all people a single country, the entire Earth, and a single home, the world.

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

So how would you define a Londoner, then?" Lady Penny asked curiously. "Someone who lives here. It's like the old definition of a cockney: someone who's born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a foreigner," he added with a grin, "is anyone, Anglo-Saxon or not, who lives outside.

At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had succeeded.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Is your home life more sorrow than joy? This isn't the way it's supposed to be. It should be more joy than sorrow. If it is, you know. If it isn't, you also know. Remember this… God is always with you. This is the bedrock that allows the hopeless to remedy their situation.

The man who builds, and lacks where with to pay, provides a home from which to run away.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

But if an Original, by being as excellent, as new, adds admiration to surprize, then we are at the writer's mercy; on the strong wing of his imagination, we are snatched from Britain to Italy, from climate to climate, from pleasure to pleasure; we have no home, no thought, of our own; till the magician drops his pen: And then falling down into ourselves, we awake to flat realities, lamenting the change, like the beggar who dreamt himself a prince.

The girl she said, I didn't tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don't want to lose them.

Take your time All will pass You'll still be there at home