Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Truss

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

Lysander Spooner

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.

Lucy Powell

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

Lucy Hale

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

Lucy Hale

I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.

Lucy Larcom

Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

Louis Untermeyer

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?

Louisa May Alcott

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

Lou Ferrigno

I like to be home every night with my family.

John Green

So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?” “Yeah,” I said. “Sucks,” he said. “I’m a lot better now,” I said. “I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus.” “I know. I’m pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.

John Gerard

If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.

John Fletcher

Charity and treating begin at home.

John F. Kennedy

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

John F. Kennedy

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

John F. Kennedy

I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.

John F. Kennedy

A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

John F. Kennedy

It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.

Jonathan Lethem

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

Jonathan Franzen

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Jonathan Davis

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Jonathan Adler

A chic home makes you happy and a happy home makes you chic!

Jonathan Adler

Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

Jonathan Alter

By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.

Jonas Mekas

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

Jonas Mekas

I make home movies-therefore I live. I live-therefore I make home movies

Jonas Mekas

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

Jon Snow

My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.

Jon Stewart

The Department of Homeland Security recommends a three-day supply of water consisting of one bottle per day for each person in your home. Plus one extra bottle to give you all something to kill each other over on day four.

Jon Stewart

The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.

Jon Stewart

In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about the outfits you're all wearing at home.

Jon Stewart

Isn't that what you really want in a jean? The ability to kick people in the face in them? I don't wanna have to go home and change into shorts...

Jon Postel

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.