Top 1200 Longing For Home Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

My grandmother had a lilac bush at her home in Long Island. I always associate the scent of it with her and try to have lilacs in my home.

Every mom I know, whether they're working in the home or working outside the home, they're super women to me.

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.

She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable to feel most at home in autumn, besides which, she almost feels most at home in all of them.

Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

Home is wherever I am. People make too big a deal about where you live. I try to be grounded in myself. Home is another way of saying 'a place where you keep all your stuff'.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.

The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.

I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.

When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't really understand what was happening. My father had stopped playing football, and he was at home all the time.

Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.

I had longed to come home but now that I was there, it wasn't much fun. Home wasn't the same if I couldn't sleep in my own bedroom or use the bathroom by myself. I felt like a stranger in those familiar rooms.

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

I Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home

You get out there in space and say to yourself: that's home. That's the only home we have, and the only one we're going to have for a long time

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I'm comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He's comfortable in us.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

I do mat or take floor Pilates class at home. I also take dance lessons at home.

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.

The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.

I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international.

Some people would rather not go to arenas; they'd rather just sit at home and watch the game at home or play on the computer.

I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.

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

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.

I am giving my best to have a quiet life but sometimes it doesn't depend on myself because people just want to come into my home and steal some things, even though I have nothing in my home.

Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused. “I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart is. I think mine’s satin-lined and six feet under.

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

There's always something special playing in your home country in front of your home audience.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

I've been hearing it for years now, the Knicks. Every time I come home, it's, 'When are you coming home to the Knicks?'

Home court will be tremendous. That will be a big relief, playing at home in front of the energy and the fans.

I understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

I am mostly at home and I do my housework, I read and I love watching documentaries. In short, I love staying at home.

When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.

My mother stayed at home and raised me and my closest sister, and that meant that the American Dream and what he was doing on television as a character and behind the scenes as a producer was producing for us at home, so it is your life.

Work does come home with us, but home also comes to work. Our kids are regulars at Eventbrite's HQ in San Francisco.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

To get the title for your home country in another country like Brazil, the home of football - it was amazing.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

We get home to Brisbane every couple of months or weeks. But we have often flown home for just two days as we get so homesick.

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.