Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Mirren

Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.

Hayden Fry

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

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.

Heraclitus

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

Henry Ward Beecher

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Henry Ward Beecher

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

Henry Ward Beecher

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

Henry Ward Beecher

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Henry James Sumner Maine

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Henry James

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Helen Suzman

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

Helena Christensen

Everything we have is everything we love - it's basically like we picked for our homes and then just put it for sale in a store.

Helen Clark

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

John Krasinski

The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Hamish Linklater

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

Gustavo Kuerten

It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

Gordon Strachan

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

Gordon Strachan

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

Gordon Ramsay

My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

John Dryden

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

John Masefield

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

John Mayer

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

John Linder

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

John Lennon

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

John Lennon

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

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.