Home Quotes - page 5

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. (Mae West)
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. View quote
Babe Ruth
My home is not a place, it is people. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. View quote
Willa Cather
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. View quote
Dale Carnegie
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Such is the patriot's boast, wherever we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere. View quote
Alfred Nobel
Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people! View quote
Frances Burney
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. View quote
Thomas Wolfe
I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan. (Huey Long)
Philologists who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. View quote
William Cowper
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. View quote
William Cowper
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. View quote
William Cowper
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. View quote
Edward Coke
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
One is always at home in one's past... View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. View quote
Tad Williams
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? View quote
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? View quote
Wole Soyinka
I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home. (Rosa Parks)
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. View quote
Eden Ahbez
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. View quote
Rumi
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church, I keep it staying at Home With a bobolink for a Chorister, And an Orchard, for a Dome. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill! View quote
James Thomas Fields