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Quotes About Home

I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there.
~ Steven Wright
Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.
~ Steven Wright
The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my house with my car keys. I started the house up. So, I drove it around for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over. He asked where I lived. I said, "right here, officer". Later, I parked it on the freeway, got out, and yelled at all the cars, "Get out of my driveway!
~ Steven Wright
Ändå jämrade sig minnet och sade: Riv inte, det är mina hus. Ni får inte slakta Klara! Varför inte, frågade då förnuftet, och minnet svarade: Därför att det är i denna del av världen som du har upplevt de klarvaknaste och mest spännande timmarna i ditt liv. Därför att alla dessa Klaras hus varit kulisser åt dina drömmar, bakgrunder till dina vandringar, vittnen till dina konspirationer.
~ Stig Dagerman
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
~ Sting
My hostess had an extensive family of brats, sticky-mouthed and staring, who were huddled around a delightfully huge fire.
~ Storm Constantine
Keep the fiercest of beasts close to the hearth. No beast ravages its own hearth. No sane beast.
~ Storm Constantine
He yearned for the mellow glow of an English summer evening and the smallness of life in his old home.
~ Storm Constantine
When we'd first moved home, I had missed the ground bustle, but had since fallen in love with the feeling of the open air around us, the play of winds among the thinner branches, the illusion that one could be all alone.
~ Storm Constantine
This is my home. You've made it so.
~ Storm Constantine
He's beautiful," she said, an inadequate response in comparison to the strange lurch she felt in her belly. The eyes of the portrait seemed to stare right into her: "He looks sad." "That was painted just before he went to Magrast for the first time. He wasn't happy about leaving home.
~ Storm Constantine
Taparak is a city of silicon and stone, shaped as if by an artist's hands. It was my home too, in the beginning.
~ Storm Constantine
She wished she could sweep her brother out of the house, tidy up in his wake, remove his presence from the atmosphere. Having him around made the place feel dirty.
~ Storm Constantine
As a baker, Seladis knew it was essential to establish an almost spiritual relationship with your stove, because they could be capricious. He intended to honour that code and keep his beast sweet, since he expected to work at home in the evenings.
~ Storm Constantine
The man uses his imagination to follow an object of fascination. He is tantalised by the chase, but also tantalises the prey. He does not want to move from his lonely home, because the reality of life might not match up to his imagination.
~ Storm Constantine
We must go to Taparak, and find ourselves a child. Someone who is yet untrained and whose mind is more malleable. We have no choice. It is either this, or we go home and wait for the sickness to find us.
~ Storm Constantine
As a baker, Seladis knew it was essential to establish an almost spiritual relationship with your stove, because they could be conspicuous. He intended to honour that code and keep his beast sweet, since he expected to work at home in the evenings.
~ Storm Constantine
Georgia, GeorgiaThe whole day through;Just an old sweet songKeeps Georgia on my mind.
~ Stuart Gorrell
with Pittodrie Stadium – home to the intermittently disastrous Aberdeen Football Club – lurking in the background, drab and dreary in the rain. Lovely.
~ Stuart MacBride
I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.
~ Stuart Woods
my home; it would be comforting to know you are there. Manolo and the
~ Stuart Woods
She had everything in there snow white. And that means work, believe me. In the dining room she had a blue set, she had sky-blue chairs. They had a bedroom with pink and blue. I look and say, "I know what this means." It means sho' 'nough — knees.
~ Studs Terkel
as Marcos reminds us, "When Mexican government officials say land, they precede the word with an 'I buy' or 'I sell,' since for the powerful land is just a commodity. When the Indigenous say land, no word recedes it, but with it they also mean nation, mother, home, school, history, wisdom.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
I went searching in a foreign land and found my way home.
~ Sue Bender