Quotes About Home

Camp Tomahawk was supposed to last all summer long, but Eddy was being sent home after only five days. Not that he cared. The place seemed more like a prison to him.

In the months to come, we'll buy a house together and get married and have a son--all of it occurring so naturally that we won't even think of ourselves as having given up our freedom, but rather as having more of it.

don't know why this little cheese conquered so many," he said softly. "But if you asked me the secret, I'd say it was because we made it in our home, the old way, the way it had been made for hundreds of years. Perhaps in the United States you don't know what it's like to have old flavors, flavors from the past, from centuries before. But we live with them every day here.

Except where the very smallest children are concerned, training at home almost entirely eliminates the need for public discipline. Yet, should the need arise in public, be discreet with your discipline, and then go home and re-train in that area of behavior so that you and the child will not be placed in that difficult situation again.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

There is no land like the land of your childhood.

Perhaps that's the best way to ward off my demons—to have one of them at home.

The social food researcher Harry Balzer noted without prompting that Americans are not cooking more, they're simply eating more meals at home.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Wisdom is a gift.The mind is its home

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

the best academic grounding for their son may be quiet, sustained play at home and a kindergarten that emphasizes socialization, play, and the out-of-doors.

Trump's home in Beverly Hills

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you." —Christian Morgenstern "Call

I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I had lived a completely unremarkable life. I wanted only my home, and the love and safety of those around me, nothing else. I knew there was no particular reason why I was put on this earth, but here I was and I was glad to be here, awed by the beauty of it. It was a perfect moment. (p.99)

what you wanted more than anything right then, was simply to sleep in your own bed, eat in your own kitchen, sit on your own toilet. You wanted to stop seeing the world. You wanted to see your world. So we would drive.

Heimwee heeft niets met esthetisch gevoel te maken, het is ook niet eens verbonden met een gelukkige herinnering, je hebt heimwee naar een plaats om de eenvoudige reden dat je er hebt gewoond, of je het er nu goed of slecht hebt gehad, het verleden is altijd mooi, en de toekomst trouwens ook, alleen het heden doet pijn, je draagt het met je mee als een lijdensgezwel dat je altijd vergezelt tussen twee oneindigheden van vredig geluk.

Un tableau, ... dit pensivement Houellebecq. En tout cas, j'ai des murs pour l'accrocher. C'est la seule chose que j'aie vraiment, dans ma vie : des murs." (p. 146)

At this moment, Paul was hungry. He would go home, it was the only right thing to do, he said to himself before he realized there was nothing to eat at home, that the shelf in the refrigerator reserved for him would be despairingly empty, and that the very expression "home" was a testament of unreasonable optimism.

To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

He told himself, too, that it was good to sleep in a bed you know well after a long day rife with emotions.

Le drame, vois-tu, c'est que beaucoup d'entre nous ne peuvent vivre ni dans leur patrie, ni à l'étranger. - Alors que leurs reste-t-il? - Le malheur.