Coming Home Quotes - Page 21

• Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.

  Bear Grylls

  Nice, Home, Needs

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

  Leslie Banks

  Hurt, Children, Home

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• No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

  Boman Irani

  Fun, Home, Legs

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• The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

  St. Jerome

  Home, Faults, Ends

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.524, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I salute the House for having the courage to stand up and fight and defund ObamaCare. And I remain confident, hopeful and optimistic the House will stand their ground, will continue the fight, which means this issue is coming back to the Senate. And when it comes back to the Senate, after the House stands their ground yet again, we will have an opportunity for Republicans to come home.

  Ted Cruz

  Home, Optimistic, Mean

  "Federal government on brink of first shutdown in nearly two decades; Madonna contaminates concern". "The Five" with Andrea Tantaros, Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfeld, Bob Beckel, Katie Pavlich, www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

  Sydney Pollack

  Real, Home, Night

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• Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'

  Annie Smith Peck

  Suicide, Depressing, Home

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• The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home.

  Timothy Leary

  Home, Dna, Able

  Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.15, Ronin Publishing

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• The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Home, House, Chickens

  Comment to John F Kennedy on the presidential crisis. Kennedy enjoyed the remark and often quoted it. Quoted in Theodore C Sorensen Kennedy (1965).

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• To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Home, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Husband, Party, Home

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• Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Like You, Chickens

  The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

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• Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Aesop

  Home, Evil, Wish

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

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• The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Memories, War

  Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq, delivered 27 February 2009, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

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• Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Home, Fields

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1853). “Memoirs of the Rev. George Whitefield: To which is Appended an Extensive Collection of His Sermons and Other Writings”, p.243

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• The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Children, Home, School

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Rates of Exchange”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Children, Home, Son

  "Helena's Secret Pain". Interview with Liz Jones, www.standard.co.uk. November 16, 2005.

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

  Harry Chapin

  Dad, Home, Cat

  Song: Cats In The Cradle

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• Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

  Stephen Crane

  Strong, Lying, Home

  Stephen Crane (2016). “Wounds in the Rain”, p.39, Stephen Crane

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• I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?

  John McCain

  Home, Fighting, Years

  Comedy sketch on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", 2000.

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• I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.

  Julie Powell

  Home, Mean, Eggs

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• Churches and trains
  they all look the same to me now
  they shoot you some place
  while we ache to come home somehow.

  Gregory Alan Isakov

  Home, Church, Looks

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• That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.'

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Home, Wife

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• I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

  Lefty Gomez

  Home, Yankees, Wife

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• When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the little town of Troy, or visit Montgomery or Tuskegee, I would see the signs that said, "WHITE MEN - COLORED MEN," "WHITE WOMEN - COLORED WOMEN."And I would come home and say to my mother and father and my grandparents, "Why?" "Why this?" "Why that?" And they would just tell me, "That's just the way it is! Don't get in the way. Don't cause trouble."

  John Lewis

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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