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Quotes About Home

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
~ Mother Teresa
I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
~ Nadine Gordimer
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
~ Patricia Reilly Giff
I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.
~ Portia de Rossi
I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
~ Rafael Nadal
Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.
~ Rick Moody
All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.
~ Robert E. Lee
These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.
~ Bob Matsui
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
~ Edward R. Murrow
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
~ Bob Hawke
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.
~ Dick Gregory
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
~ George Orwell
The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.
~ Riane Eisler
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
~ Victor Cousin
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
~ U Thant
Outside was the calm that sat in front of a July storm, the kind of cloudy stillness that said you'd better get you and your bicycle on home before a gully washer let loose.
~ Susan Crandall
Patti Lynn had a real family with a sister and three brothers and lived in a big house on Magnolia Street. She even had a dog.
~ Susan Crandall
At home, I set the table and make my bed," said Krista. "I like the chores I do here much better--like baking and taking food out to the pigs." Amanda helped get dinner ready. "I miss a normal carrot peeler," she said as she scraped vegetables with a knife. Then she started to shuck corn. "Now that I think about it," she added, "I wish someone in the future would invent a corn peeler.
~ Susan E. Goodman
A basic guideline of living with the Law is gratitude. Showing gratitude for your family, smiling, and thanking them helps create a harmonious home.
~ Susan Edwards
Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Come on," said Papa. "Let's go home.
~ Susan Green