Quotes About Home

My grandmother spent a lot of time with us when we were growing up. She did the school runs and fed us when my mum was busy. To be with her was to really be at home.

My grandmother's house was a one room shack.

My grandmother had a lilac bush at her home in Long Island. I always associate the scent of it with her and try to have lilacs in my home.

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.

There were just a lot of things that happened between my mother and I, and I thought it would be easier if I lived with my grandmother.

The inspiration to cook came from my grandmother and my father who were both wonderful home cooks. But I would say I taught myself. You travel, you discover the world, you explore books - it is these things that make a great cook.

Especially in America, when you move away from home, sometimes you get disconnected with your grandparents, your friends you grew up with.

I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

I'm grateful for anything that brings me back to Colorado.

I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.

Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.

I don't know what it is to feel very British, but I feel that it's home, so I'm very happy to represent Great Britain.

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

Getting my mum a house was a really great feeling.

To be able to go to place where friends and family fly in to watch me play, having lots of home support and enjoying Dubai, is always great fun.

Seattle was good for me. I was very comfortable there - not comfortable in terms of it was too easy, but I was at home, I was with my family and friends. It was a great life. I was home. But I think, for me, when I get too comfortable with the lifestyle and everything, I feel that my performances, my focus can go down.

I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn't really cook.

That was one of the great moments for me, getting a knockout in front of my home crowd in London.

I've got a great place, it's a country house.

L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.

I miss Canberra. It's a great place to grow up in.