Coming Home Quotes - Page 12

• Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

  Jane Fonda

  Powerful, Home, Views

  FaceBook post by Jane Fonda from Dec 21, 2014

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• Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Football, Kids, Home

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Home, Sleep

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jobs, Home, Earth

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• I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.

  Iggy Pop

  Inspirational, Teenage, Kids

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• The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Home, Support

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• I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

  Rita Wilson

  Home, School, Greek

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.

  Allison Williams

  Jobs, Home, Cereal

  "Newsflash: Allison Williams Has Arrived". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

  Richard Serra

  Home, Bay Area, Coming Back

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• I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

  Ralph Stanley

  Believe, Home, Rocks

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• With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

  Joe Scarborough

  Home, West, Sides

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• The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

  George Saunders

  Struggle, Writing, Tired

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• The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.

  Jenny Lawson

  Husband, Cat, Home

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• I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

  John Mahoney

  Father, Home, Men

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• However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

  Rachel Hartman

  Home, Rocks, Long

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• I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

  Victoria Gotti

  Dad, Home, Night

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• When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Morning, Children, Dad

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• I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

  Will Rogers

  War, Believe, Home

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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• The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

  Arnold Palmer

  Lying, Home, Golf

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• I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "High Honors For Actress Deavere Smith". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 25, 2013.

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• Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Daughter, Home, Men

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• In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Sleep, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

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• Once in awhile, I'mma cheat and get dome,
  But best believe that I'mma always come home.
  Shorty, I luv you.

  Meyhem Lauren

  Believe, Rap, Home

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• I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.

  Jayson Williams

  Children, Moving, Home

  "Ex-NBA Star Williams 'Terrified' As Trial Opens". abcnews.go.com. January 16.

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