Coming Home Quotes - Page 19

• I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

  Barney Frank

  Home, Low Income, Ownership

  "The Not-So-Retiring Barney Frank". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

  Jessica Lynch

  War, Home, Opportunity

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

  Eli Roth

  Jobs, Home, Blood

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

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• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

  Jo Nesbo

  Country, Home, Years

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• I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

  Ron Kovic

  Memorial Day, Home, Yankees

  Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

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• You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

  Wilhelm II

  Military, Home, Tree

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• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Summer, Regret, Spring

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”

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• I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Art, Home, Figures

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• Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home

  Conchita Wurst

  Home, Felt, Participating

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• If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Dance, Home, Night

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• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  Kajol

  Home, Sloth, Wish

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• Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Home, Hands

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

  Ted Allen

  Home, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't come home a failure.

  Ty Cobb

  Home

  Ty Cobb, William R. Cobb, Paul Dickson (2009). “My Twenty Years in Baseball”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

  Paula Poundstone

  Home, Kids, Firsts

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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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• The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

  Patricia Briggs

  Morning, Home, Writing

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• Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.

  Angelina Jolie

  Real, Home, Trying

  "Angelina Jolie still digs stunt work, mom time". Interview with Dean Richards, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 25, 2010.

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• I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Home, Long, Forever

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Lying Days”, p.375, A&C Black

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• We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

  Eddie Cochran

  Family, Party, Home

  Song: Let's Get Together

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• Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

  Country Joe McDonald

  Father, Block, Home

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• So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

  Bill Janklow

  Home, Opportunity, People

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• Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.

  Carson Kressley

  Party, Home, Thinking

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

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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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• 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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