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Quotes About Home

I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter.
~ Tayari Jones
But this is what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
~ Tayari Jones
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who leave home, and those who don't.
~ Tayari Jones
But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family.
~ Tayari Jones
Casa tua non è il posto dove atterri ; è quello da cui decolli . Non è possibile scegliersi una casa, come non lo è scegliersi una famiglia. Nel poker ti toccano cinque carte. Tre le puoi scambiare, ma due te le devi tenere: la famiglia e la terra in cui sei nato.
~ Tayari Jones
home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.
~ Tayari Jones
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who leave home, and those who don't. I'm a proud member of the first category.
~ Tayari Jones
There is nothing like a Puerto Rican grandmother.
~ Tayari Jones
Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.
~ Tayeb Salih
There is nothing stronger and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house. A grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy. But their own hearts know it best.
~ Taylor Caldwell
I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
~ T-Bone Burnett
Celui qui craint de mourir n'est qu'un enfant perdu à la recherche de sa maison.
~ Tchouang-tseu
The one who is scared of dying is but a lost child looking for his home
~ Tchouang-tseu
I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
~ Ted Allen
When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
~ Ted Allen
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
~ Ted Allen
In Chicago, Illinois, you / are really at home / whether you like it or not, baby, / &, whether you like it / or not / You Are My Friend / so don't pees me off!
~ Ted Berrigan
The waiter was a kind of surrogate uncle or grandfather for the duration of the meal; he paradoxically made you feel at home by treating you with undisguised contempt.
~ Ted Merwin
Home should be the shelter where the teen is understood and loved, where he is encouraged and shown the paths of life.
~ Tedd Tripp
The most powerful way to keep your children from being attracted by the offers of camaraderie from the wicked is to make home an attractive place to be.
~ Tedd Tripp
My wife would like to live in Spain; I'd like to live in Italy.
~ Alvaro Morata
When I came to Spain, people thought I would fly home again after the holidays, stay up all night celebrating, and would have no discipline. That may be true of other players, but it's not my way.
~ Rivaldo
Obviously, Spain is my home, and I have everything here - family, friends - but I'm very happy in England, with the way of life we have and with English football.
~ Juan Mata
I would be happy to go back to Spain at the right moment.
~ Manuel Pellegrini