Home Quotes
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I have four sisters at home, and both my mom and dad worked, and both of them took care of us. It wasn't like my mom was fully domestic, or my dad was fully domestic: they were just equals in their relationship. So I grew up with the perspective that women should be pursuing their dreams and not have to depend on a guy.
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While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.
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I went to church and Jim and his wife, Liz, went to see the home.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.
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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20 years old and was absolutely terrified. I grew up in a small town, so the city itself scared me. I initially did not plan on staying but fell in love with it and never went home.
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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.
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I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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It's really difficult for them to sit and do their work because they are some worried, concerned about where their next meal is coming from. Who's going to be home when they get home in the afternoon? Are they going to get to come to school the next day?
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.
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During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.
