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Quotes About Home

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
~ Alan Hovhaness
I have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.
~ Jacques Torres
My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
~ Amy Sedaris
In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.
~ Dolores O'Riordan
The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I don't like big spiders in the house.
~ Derren Brown
There is a chapter in 'Gentle Regrets' called 'Coming Home' which is really me expressing my later admiration for my father's public spirit.
~ Roger Scruton
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
~ Allan Bloom
Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education - for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.
~ Bil Keane
I think being in the world of R&B creates a sense of home, and I think it's important to have that sense of home and spirituality within your music.
~ Snoh Aalegra
I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.
~ James McBride
I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.
~ Lisa Jewell
America is a transplanted place. Families split and people travel 1,000 miles for a job, but the South is not yet like that. People live for three or four generations in the same town, even the same house.
~ Greg Iles
Every time I fought at home, I gave my fans a knockout. I spoiled my fan base in Cincinnati.
~ Adrien Broner
We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life.
~ John Isner
If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home.
~ Prince Philip
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
~ Prince Royce
I spoke in Tamil at home and ate dosa and idli.
~ Vidya Vox
He tried to convince me. He spoke to me: 'You have to play for Belgium.' He came to talk to me, he's always talking to me. I told him 'it's difficult, Lukaku, can't do it, it's not the same. Playing for Belgium is something else. Playing for Selecao... It's Brazil, I feel at home.'
~ Andreas Pereira
Balancing around the holidays is something I've been doing for years. I saved a lot of money by not going home for Christmas, that's for sure. But I still spoke with all my family and connected with everyone.
~ Claressa Shields
My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home.
~ Sergino Dest
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
~ Josephine Hart, Damage