Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

You don't get homesick here, ... It's like living at home.

I told them next week is homecoming. What's more important, homecoming or football? We're going to find out.

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.

Justin Torres

It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susan's homecoming with the world.

Robert Reich

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

We know what that's like. You have the momentum when you're playing at home and you just feel invincible.

We know, we need to win the ones at home and ride out the ones on the road and see what happens.

Ronnie Brewer

We know we can play better. We just need to go back home and work on things and do them better the next time we play.

Joe Sakic

We know how back home much this is going to hurt. We feel the same way here.

Dianna Agron

We do have a love fest [at home]. It's like, 'I'm making you a cupcake.' Then it's like, 'Well, I made you a cake.' And it's like, 'Well I made you a cake with a cupcake on top and candles.'

Devon Werkheiser

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

David Sedaris

Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.

David Mixner

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

David Stockman

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Alan Jackson

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Chris Christie

The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president [Barack Obama]. And you've seen the violence in his home city of Chicago. This is just another example.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

Chinua Achebe

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

Chick Hearn

Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!

Eartha Kitt

I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

David Hockney

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

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