Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

Gordon B. Hinckley

With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch. . . . I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I don't hesitate to say if every family in the world practiced [family home evening], you'd see a very great difference in the solidarity of the families of the world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.

Gladys Taber

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

Gladys Taber

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

Gerrit Smith

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Horace

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

Herbert V. Prochnow

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

Herbert Spencer

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

Herman Melville

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Herb Kelleher

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.

Henry David Thoreau

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Henry David Thoreau

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

Henry David Thoreau

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

Henry David Thoreau

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

Henry David Thoreau

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Henry David Thoreau

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

Henry David Thoreau

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

Henry David Thoreau

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Henry David Thoreau

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

Jill Wagner

Wipeout is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!

Jilly Cooper

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Jilly Cooper

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

Jilly Cooper

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Jillian Michaels

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

Jill Scott

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.