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Quotes About Change

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
~ James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.
~ Rob Brezsny
Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.
~ Ruth Westheimer
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
~ Kathryn Stockett
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
~ Anne Sexton
I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.
~ Madeleine Thien
Our lives can change with every breath we take.
~ Billie Letts
There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
~ Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.
~ Lester Piggott
Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.
~ Junot Diaz
Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.
~ Chris Kilham
Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.
~ Kent McCord
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
~ John Steinbeck
The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns
~ Aceyalone
A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.
~ Michelle Gomez
Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home. Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden, Without me, will still bear flowers.
~ Su Ting
I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.
~ Eva Green
My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.
~ Robin Williams
I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.
~ Johnny Cash
Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson