Back Home Quotes

• I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Travel, Home, Positivity

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2015

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• If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

  Fannie Flagg

  Running, Home, Nine

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.290, Random House

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• Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

  Gaines Adams

  Running, Home, Soul

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• Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Travel, Home, Joy

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2011). “How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling”, p.12, Travelers' Tales

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• So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, Air, Blue

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Atlântico Press

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• On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

  John Ratzenberger

  Home, Saws, Bigs

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• For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

  Mitt Romney

  Home, Order, Transition

  "Romney: Illegal Immigrants Who Want a Green Card Must First Return Home". Mitt Romney's statement on illegal immigration during a town hall meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, www.foxnews.com. December 9, 2011.

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• We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Home, Lobbyists, Forget

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• I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.

  Jill Scott

  Home, Worry, Forever

  "Jill Scott Talks BAGGAGE CLAIM, Working with Paula Patton and Adam Brody, Her Desire to Be on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

  Blake Shelton

  Song, Home, Thinking

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• Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.

  Helen Fisher

  Home, Men, Hunting

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• You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

  Colm Toibin

  Real, Home, School

  "You can take the man out of Ireland". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Home, Views, Want

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• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, Real, War

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Home, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.23, Anchor

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• There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Home, Cities

  Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

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• I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home?

  Marine Le Pen

  Home, People, Want

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  Vin Diesel

  Inspirational, Dream, New York

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• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

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• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Survival, Energy

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• I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Home, People, India

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Home, Heart, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

  Bianca Jagger

  Home, Texas, Office

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• I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

  Jewel

  Home, Thinking, Trying

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• General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

  Chief Joseph

  Moving, Home, People

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