Home Quotes
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
Padgett Powell
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Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of the workplace, but one of the continuing frustrations for women is the lack of respect they get for taking on the responsibility for domestic life, whether they're also working outside the home or not.
Mariella Frostrup
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My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
Dave Morris
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There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
Phoebe Tonkin
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Hank Sauer
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. Philip Randolph
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He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.
Rachel Caine
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
Naveen Andrews
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It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
Rachel Tucker
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
Omar Dorsey
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When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.
Loretta Lynn
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It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home, to bring world-class, classical music to Somerset.
Charles Hazlewood
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I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
Bikram Choudhury
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I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.
Jason Aldean
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
Larry David
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I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I'm not in hotels or living it up.
Katherine Ryan
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You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
Benjamin Walker
