2016-02-15

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.               Margaret Thatcher

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.       Oliver Wendell Holmes

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.        Bill Cosby

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.                Robert Frost

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.               Confucius

Home is where the heart is.        Pliny the Elder

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.     Zig Ziglar

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.   George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.    Jane Austen

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.                Tad Williams

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.        Sam Ewing

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.    Sarah Ban Breathnach

God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.    Meister Eckhart

I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.                Andy Warhol

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.     Pope John Paul II

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.             Charles M. Schulz

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.    Og Mandino

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.           Thomas Fuller

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.                Stephen Covey

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.  Gaston Bachelard

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home. Kin Hubbard

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it’s God first, friends and family second and you third, we won’t ever have an argument.           Jeff Foxworthy

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.             Evan Esar

Where thou art, that is home.    Emily Dickinson

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.          Kin Hubbard

The home should be the treasure chest of living.              Le Corbusier

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.                Smedley Butler

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.  Lyndon B. Johnson

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.      Helen Rowland

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.       E. W. Howe

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.           Elie Wiesel

If your house is burning, wouldn’t you try and put out the fire?  Imran Khan

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.  Billy Sunday

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.  Channing Pollock

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.             Charles Henry Parkhurst

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.        Anthea Turner

A man’s house is his castle.          James Otis

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.   George Pataki

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.               Kenny Guinn

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.              Phillips Brooks

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.       William Jerome

A man’s home is his wife’s castle.             Alexander Chase

Home wasn’t built in a day.          Jane Sherwood Ace

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.            Jill Scott

I feel like I’ve never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don’t know exactly where I fit in… There’s always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.        Sam Shepard

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.       John Cheever

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.            Rosalynn Carter

Seek home for rest, for home is best.    Thomas Tusser

Since I travel so much, it’s always great to be home. There’s nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.              Amy Grant

The home is the chief school of human virtues. William Ellery Channing

I love grocery shopping when I’m home. That’s what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests. Yo-Yo Ma

A heart makes a good home for the friend.         Yunus Emre

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back. Earl Wilson

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.                Frank Langella

The prospect of going home is very appealing.   David Ginola

I’m lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.       Michelle Branch

I’m a real Suzy Homemaker.        Suzy Bogguss

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.                Edward Coke

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.             Adolf Loos

I’m going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they’ll be ripe.     Ryan Stiles

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.            Tony Stewart

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.                Sarah Brightman

Home is one’s birthplace, ratified by memory.    Henry Anatole Grunwald

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.                Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.           Mother Teresa

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.            Melody Beattie

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.            Martin Luther

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.  John F. Kennedy

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.   Maya Angelou

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.    Zig Ziglar

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.       Dale Carnegie

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.       Muhammad Ali

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.  Dalai Lama

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!   Charles Dickens

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.             Winston Churchill

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.        Dale Carnegie

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.  Audrey Hepburn

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.            Maya Angelou

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.                Chuck Palahniuk

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.                Eminem

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.       Ronald Reagan

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means. Henny Youngman

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.     Ronald Reagan

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.            Tecumseh

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.   Twyla Tharp

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.   Mitt Romney

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.                Marilyn Monroe

I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.         Eminem

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.                Friedrich Nietzsche

Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.       Freya Stark

A girl phoned me the other day and said… ‘Come on over, there’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home.                Rodney Dangerfield

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.                Elbert Hubbard

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.   Erma Bombeck

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.              Mae West

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.          George Bernard Shaw

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.         Bo Bennett

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.         George Bernard Shaw

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.             Erma Bombeck

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.            Tupac Shakur

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.               W. C. Fields

All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.         Chaim Potok

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.          Voltaire

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.  Barack Obama

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.       Phyllis Diller

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.               Marlene Dietrich

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.                Margaret Mead

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.            Steve Jobs

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.       Billy Graham

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.           Billy Graham

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.       Dan Lipinski

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?               Eliza Dushku

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.      Erma Bombeck

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. Plato

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.      Bob Dylan

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.       Bob Dylan

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.   Barack Obama

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.                Roseanne Barr

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.     Steven Wright

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.                Woodrow Wilson

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.             Woody Allen

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don’t hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.             Billy Sunday

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.  Phyllis Diller

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.  Margaret Thatcher

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.            Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers’ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.        Joel Osteen

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.     Dale Carnegie

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.      Joel Osteen

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.      Amelia Earhart

Today’s misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work – its going to take a new president.                Mitt Romney

Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad!    Marcus Garvey

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.           Lily Tomlin

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.   Mike Tyson

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven. Rick Warren

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases… is an old-fashioned idea.       Ron Paul

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.       Mitt Romney

You see much more of your children once they leave home.       Lucille Ball

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we’re falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.          Jude Law

Home is where one starts from.                T. S. Eliot

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.      Margaret Thatcher

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.          Rodney Dangerfield

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.          Richard Bach

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.                Ogden Nash

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.       Stephen King

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.       W. Somerset Maugham

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.               Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A home without books is a body without soul.   Marcus Tullius Cicero

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.           Bill Copeland

The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.               Dolly Parton

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.                Rumi

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.             Billy Graham

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.    Hillary Clinton

There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends ’cause I’m too content being by myself.  Drew Barrymore

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.   Kin Hubbard

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.  Samuel Johnson

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.    Charles Dickens

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.                Sigmund Freud

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.       Charles Dickens

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, ‘Get out of Afghanistan. Bring ’em all home.’ And there are others who say, ‘Put in hundreds of thousands of more.’      Hillary Clinton

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.         Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.    Lin Yutang

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.        Jim Carrey

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.           Jessica Lange

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.    Chuck Palahniuk

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.      James Madison

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn’t work for me. I’d just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.              Daniel Radcliffe

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.                Andy Warhol

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.         Jean Cocteau

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?               Orison Swett Marden

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.    Andy Warhol

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.      Edward R. Murrow

There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them.               Anthony Edwards

When everyone goes home, you’re stuck with yourself.               Layne Staley

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.        James Madison

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?             Jackie Kennedy

I’ve always looked for the perfect life to step into. I’ve taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.     Layne Staley

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don’t know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.       Mark Burnett

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.                Lyndon B. Johnson

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.      George Eliot

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.       Seth Godin

If your neighbors think you’re a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.          Jeff Foxworthy

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security.            Suze Orman

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.  Vance Havner

If I don’t feel confident about my body, I’m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It’s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it’s fitness or whatever. It’s about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.      Kim Kardashian

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That’s rewarding.               Harvey Fierstein

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.    Niklas Zennstrom

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.     James Madison

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.        James H. Douglas

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.   Bette Davis

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.                Marie Corelli

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.         Olivia Newton-John

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. Thomas Fuller

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.    Elmer Davis

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.              Babe Ruth

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.                David Suzuki

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. Ernest Istook

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.        Todd Tiahrt

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.              Babe Ruth

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.     P. J. O’Rourke

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.              Janis Joplin

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.        Babe Ruth

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.      Samuel Butler

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.   Dick Gregory

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.  Michelle Obama

Maria is the best reason to come home.               Arnold Schwarzenegger

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.         Samuel Johnson

When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.    Thornton Wilder

And when the day arrives I’ll become the sky and I’ll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.           Trent Reznor

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.                Edward Abbey

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.         Sitting Bull

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.    LeBron James

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.             James Madison

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.     Hermann Hesse

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.               Alfred Lord Tennyson

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of ‘curb appeal.’ Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.                Barbara Corcoran

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.  James Dobson

Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?  Bill Maher

So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.  Henry Rollins

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.      Douglas MacArthur

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.                John Stuart Mill

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.          Robert Orben

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.          Stephen King

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.            Doug Larson

Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.   Alfred Hitchcock

If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.            Marilyn Manson

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.      J. K. Rowling

I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.  Quentin Tarantino

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‘Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.’       Jimmy Carter

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.       William J. Clinton

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.       Phil McGraw

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.              Mickey Mantle

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to ‘The Art of Happiness’ by the Dalai Lama. Carmen Electra

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.        Ida B. Wells

I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.     Ellen DeGeneres

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I’ll get it right one day.           Richard Pryor

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.       Alice Walker

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.          Gloria Steinem

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.  William Hazlitt

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one’s home.   Harry Connick, Jr.

The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.              Kim Kardashian

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.   Jeremy Taylor

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed. Ellen DeGeneres

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?                Samuel Goldwyn

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.  Charles Caleb Colton

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I’d do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.   Steve Martin

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.             Ben Kingsley

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.        Hugh Jackman

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that. Dolly Parton

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.           Denzel Washington

When a criminal breaks into your home I’ll let the liberals call the lawyer. I’m going to call Smith &amp Wesson.  Rick Perry

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done my job.                Roseanne Barr

Students never think it can be the teacher’s fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn’t do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it’s how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.           Danica McKellar

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.               Frank Lloyd Wright

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.  Chief Joseph

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.          Colin Chapman

Since I’m always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.                Chris Brown

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.        Max Muller

There’s a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There’s such a continuity between everything that I don’t really care what form it shows up in.         Alanis Morissette

I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.     Dorothy L. Sayers

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.            Bob Filner

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.  Daniel Radcliffe

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.          James Joyce

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.       Havelock Ellis

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.                James A. Michener

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.    Josh Billings

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something.     Will Cuppy

Here’s kind of my motto – if you’re not happy at home, you’re not happy anywhere else.              Angie Harmon

Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?     Oliver Wendell Holmes

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. Amelia Earhart

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.            Pam Brown

Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.               Kevin O’Leary

Yes, I’ve kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that’s it. I don’t go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.              Paris Hilton

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.     Babe Ruth

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.             Richard M. Nixon

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.          E. W. Howe

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.        Paul McCartney

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.      Jean Paul

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.     David Bowie

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.  Garry Moore

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.                Washington Irving

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That’s but a hint of what we’ll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be ‘at home’ in a way that defies description.            Charles Stanley

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.       Steven Spielberg

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.   Roger Moore

It’s not like I’m this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.             Heidi Klum

To be honest, when I’m home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn’t really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn’t prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.     Danica Patrick

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.          William Temple

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.              John Dewey

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.               George Edward Moore

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.     Lyndon B. Johnson

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home. David Herbert Lawrence

I missed my home – like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country – culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.          Orlando Bloom

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. Amos Bronson Alcott

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.      Augustus Hare

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.  Christopher Hitchens

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.               Christopher Hitchens

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve got to be joking!’ I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.    Danica McKellar

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.   Elizabeth Edwards

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read – they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.                Russell Banks

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.       William Cowper

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. R. Buckminster Fuller

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.   Ann Landers

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.     William Shatner

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?               Jay-Z

Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.              Hedy Lamarr

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That’s the same view I have for performing. I’m performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.         Yo-Yo Ma

I’m the type of woman you might say is too good. I’ll massage a man’s feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed. Angie Stone

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I’m at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.             Henry Lawson

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.     Delta Goodrem

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?               Wole Soyinka

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.        Robert Plant

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.           Ivor Novello

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I’d come home and go to church and everybody would say, ‘Oh, my God. Demetri, you’re working at the White House.’                Demetri Martin

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. Anita Baker

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it’s like discovering a filmmaker who you’re taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, ‘I’m so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.’        Drew Barrymore

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.    Terry Pratchett

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.                LeBron James

For target shooting, that’s okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that’s why we have police departments.    James Brady

Home is pretty utopian.                Scott Adams

The greenest home is the one you don’t build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that’s already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don’t want.           Scott Adams

Obviously there’s not much options when you’re a cartoonist – you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier. Scott Adams</p

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