Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanne Froggatt

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

Jo Brand

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

Jo Brand

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

Jimmy Carter

Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.

John Cage

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

John Cage

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

John C. Maxwell

If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.

Matt Brown

The (Internet Service Provider) called me at home at 10 p.m. Tuesday to tell me what had happened.

Robin Williams

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

The longest road out is the shortest road home

James Thomas Fields

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

James T. Walsh

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

James T. Walsh

Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

James T. Walsh

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

James Taylor

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

James Thurber

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

James Thurber

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

James Thurber

In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.

James P. Cannon

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

James Otis

A man's house is his castle.

James Patterson

The hamster called. He wants his home back.

James Patterson

So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on." "Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.

James Patterson

NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

James Patterson

Home is wherever we all are together.

James McBride

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

Ellsworth Huntington

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

Ellsworth Huntington

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

Ellis Peters

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Ellis Peters

Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

Elmore Leonard

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

Ellen Swallow Richards

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.