Quotes About Home

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

I never thought I'd be able to go back to Ukraine.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

My American home is L.A., which is the ultimate city for 365 days of summer.

My ultimate goal? To move my momma out of Birmingham. To move my whole family out of Birmingham, my friends, my family, me. It don't even need to be out of Birmingham, just to a better community, a gated community or something.

The ultimate goal of fostering is to get kittens and cats adopted.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

Every bathroom in my house will ultimately have a Toto bidet in it.

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

The day after Brexit I had a moment when someone said, 'Don't you want to go back to your own country?' I wasn't 100 per cent sure if he was thinking he was being kind? I was like, 'Um... this is my home, thank you.'

I have buddies who say, 'Where are you living ? Wyoming or something? Don't you still have a house in California?' I tell them we live in Idaho, and you can see it on their face and sense it in their voice: 'Um... O... K.'

Homelessness is an umbrella term for a lot of different problems that need separate solutions.

I feel dull when I am unable to see my mother for long. So, when I am in Hyderabad, I spend time with her.

The fact that we're Olympic champions and we don't have any professional teams in our home country is pretty unacceptable.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.

I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.