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Quotes About Change

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
~ Qiu Jin
The revolution begins at home.
~ Cherrie Moraga
There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.
~ Tove Jansson
At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.
~ Warsan Shire
For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.
~ Margaret Keane
It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.
~ Eric Roth
The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.
~ Christopher Fry
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
~ Horace Mann
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.
~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.
~ Shauna Niequist
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
~ Dennis Farina
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).
~ Stephen King
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
~ Ivor Novello
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
~ Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.
~ Miranda Lambert
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
~ Thomas Friedman
I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~ Richard Bach
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
~ Lucille Ball
Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.
~ Michelle Sagara
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
~ Bootsy Collins
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.
~ Erin Gray