Coming Home Quotes - Page 28

• I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Morning, Inspiration, Home

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• I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I think the system is very wasteful of taxpayers’ dollars. It’s also very wasteful of human potential. I found that most people whom I was locked up with were, you know, good people who have skills and value. Prison is a missed opportunity to nurture those things.

  Piper Kerman

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

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• I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

  Diane Cilento

  Home, Naughty, People

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• The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Home, Israel, People

  Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.timesofisrael.com. October 1, 2013.

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• [My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Life, Mother, Pain

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• When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Home

  "Taraji P. Henson Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, PERSON OF INTEREST, Upcoming NO GOOD DEED, and Her Wish to Play Either Whitney Houston or a Superhero". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

  Orson Scott Card

  Home, People, Worry

  "Treasure Box". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.

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• Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Troops, Withdrawal

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• It makes me happy when my sons come home and tell me, 'We bumped into Donatella and she says hi.'

  Stephanie Seymour

  Home, Son, Make Me Happy

  "Stephanie Seymour: Mum's the Word" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2014.

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• I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.

  Mike Tyson

  Crush, Mother, Running

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Home, Animal

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

  Barry Gibb

  Family, Home, Secret

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• It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Home, Welcome

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

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• I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Smile, Morning, Home

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• Truth comes home to the mind so
  naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more
  than recall it to our memory.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Motivational, Memories, Home

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• Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Sports, Children, Teaching

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• Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like, on what God is up to in the world, and on what God is up to in your life. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. To be mistaken about him is the saddest mistake of all.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Mistake, Home

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• I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Home, Blessing, Thinking

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• Whether it’s food or women, the ones on front street are supermodels. Big hair, big tits, big trouble, but the one you come home to is probably something like cavatelli and red sauce. She’s not screaming for attention because she knows she’s good enough even if your dumb ass hasn’t figured it out yet.

  Eddie Huang

  Home, Hair, Dumb

  "Tiger Moms and Fly Girls: How Do Women Fare on ‘Fresh Off the Boat’?" by Sara Stewart, www.indiewire.com. February 5, 2015.

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• The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

  Myrtle Reed

  Rain, Home, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1909). “Old Rose and Silver”

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• There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Morning, Home, Surfing

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

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• Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Susanna Moodie

  Home, Chickens, Curse

  Susanna Moodie (2011). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• If you had women running the weed market, I think there'd be lots of different products. I know periods. I know how horrible they are, and I know enough people who suffer from them that I really want to speak to them so they can carry something in their pocketbook for relief. Or come home, get in a tub, and soak with something that will actually work.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Running, Weed, Home

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

  Lorne Michaels

  Mother, Running, Uncles

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• But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

  M. Scott Peck

  Religious, Buddhist, Home

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