Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.

Henri Nouwen

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Herta Muller

Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.

Hilary Mantel

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.

John Lennon

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

Ann Landers

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Joss Whedon

The more you can create a structure by which people live in a fantastical situation and by which they will act, and the more you lay that out for the audience, the more they will feel at home in it.

They ran home in 32.86 and he was making ground.

Conor McGregor

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.

There's a sense of urgency any time you play in the state tournament. It's one loss and you go home.

David Bromstad

I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are

Bernard de Mandeville

If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness, I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy'd nor esteem'd by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit, to a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home.

Cat Cora

If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

Alan K. Simpson

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Buddy Guy

When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.

We were hoping to move back home this weekend, but not now.

Big Sean

When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.

Dwyane Wade

When another team is at home and they've got that rhythm going at the end you never know what can happen.

Valentina Tereshkova

You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

We are going to try to stay open in Hattiesburg as late as we can, but we've got to get our people home to safety.

Dee Brown

We didn't relax. It's a road game. If they didn't come back, they're not protecting their home court.

Kat Graham

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

David Lynch

What I really like is to be at home, working.

Barbara Kingsolver

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Ben Okri

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

Randy Houser

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

Danny Bonaduce

I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me.

Andy Serkis

I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.

Malala Yousafzai

There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

Claude Rains

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.

Cliff Burton

Cannot The Kingdom of Salvation take me home?

Colin Powell

I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.