Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.
England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.
When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.
Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.
Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.
I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.
I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
When you are starved and something is dropped on your plate you are going to relish every bite.
If a stolen base is there based on a pitcher's time to the plate, then steal a bag.
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
Live free or die is not just a slogan on a license plate. It is the very essence of who we are.
If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.
I couldn't ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.
Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.
I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.
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.
I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.
Your real home isn't your patterned self. It isn't your thinking. It isn't your feeling. Your real home is the deepest within that you know the truth of. Your real home, your only home, is direct knowledge.
Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.
I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.
I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate.
Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.
Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.
Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don't care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.
I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.
She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
Fatherhood is an honor, and men should be strong enough to step up to the plate.
I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.
There are negatives in fighting away from home: you're not in front of your home fans, you don't have your home comforts, but I have travelled the world as an amateur and I have always managed to bring back medals. I enjoy it a little bit more when you're the underdog.
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.
You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
When you get in this profession, you want the coaches to put more on your plate.
Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.
Every meal is a conscious effort to stay disciplined and understand what's on your plate.
If you look at my plate, I only have salad, chicken, and juice, and that's how I am.
Cooking is about imbibing different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.
My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother's scrambled eggs.
I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.
The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.
For me, food is about generosity, and this should reflect on the plate as well.
I'm an accountant. I'm a manufacturer from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who stepped up to the plate, and now I'm a U.S. senator.
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