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Quotes About Home

Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Estar en casa es tremendamente peligroso. A cada paso que damos hay peligro de muerte o mutilación. Incluso me atrevería a decir que cuantas más comodidades civilizadoras guardamos en casa, mayores son las posibilidades de que nos suceda una catástrofe. Vivir en una caverna era más seguro que todo eso, claro, siempre y cuando no irrumpiera en ella un tigre dientes de sable en ausencia de la gente que se encargaba de cazar.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
Einer von denen, die nach Hause kommen und die dann doch nicht nach Hause kommen, weil für sie kein Zuhause mehr da ist.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.
~ Woody Allen
We now have two homes," I bleated to my wife, fishing out the cyanide capsule my accountant had given me in the event things had taken precisely this turn.
~ Woody Allen
I walked her home, chatting about this and that, trying to impress her with tales of my brief stint in the Navy SEALs throwing fish to our men each time they completed a successful mission.
~ Woody Allen
After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and said, Look at that wonderful moolight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.
~ Wu Cheng'en
There is no water like the water out of your own well.
~ Wu Cheng'en
A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
~ Yann Martel
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! -- do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.
~ Yann Martel
Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.
~ Yann Martel
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home.
~ Christopher Isherwood
What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content—all the great things in life are done by discontented people.
~ Christopher Morley
Oh, sir, I'm glad you got home in time for Christmas," she said. "The children were counting on it. Did you have a successful trip, sir?" "Every trip is successful when you get home again," said Gissing.
~ Christopher Morley
Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar
~ Unknown
The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.
~ Christopher Walken
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
~ Unknown
Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
My mother was from the Fells, but I've never wanted to go. They say there are monsters there." "There are monsters here, healer.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I wish I believed in something, Madison thought. I wish I belonged somewhere.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home
~ Unknown
I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
~ Claire Danes
Siobhan's smiled broadened, "Aye, it matters naught where one is born, as long as one discovers where one is truly meant to be." -- The Countess by Claire Delacroix
~ Unknown