Home Life Quotes

• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

  Confucius

  Family, Strength, Peace

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• Without just one nest
  A bird can call the world home
  Life is your career

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Home, Careers

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

  Rachel Cusk

  Home, Doors, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on its head and I can't walk down the street unless I'm wearing dark sunglasses and a ninja kit.

  Skandar Keynes

  Home, Dark, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Family, Teaching, Home

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• Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!

  Saffron Burrows

  Home, Thinking, Location

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• I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot).

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Beautiful, Home, Men

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• We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our women and the home life made by them, which must be the root and ground of the whole matter. Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, Home, Civilization

  "The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters".

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• My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

  Betty Cuthbert

  Children, Home, People

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

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• There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Home, Debt, Financial

  Henrik Ibsen (2005). “A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.12, Prestwick House Inc

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• That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

  Lenny Henry

  Depression, Home, Funny Things

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• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Baseball, Home

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

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• I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

  Brad Garrett

  Children, Home, Kids

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• The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Home

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.175, Booklassic

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• I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Book, Home

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.

  Alva Myrdal

  Children, Home, Equality

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Nations, Destroyed

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• In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Family, Home, House

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• There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Home, Separation

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• Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.

  Jim Brown

  Father, Home, Men

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

  Masaaki Imai

  Philosophy, Home, Kaizen

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• This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

  Julia Barr

  Home, Feds, Private Life

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• Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Home, Kids, Parenting

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• The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Home, Acceptance

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

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