New Home Quotes - Page 5

• Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

  Matthew Sweet

  Home, Thinking, Feelings

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• I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

  Harold Brodkey

  Sweet, Sorry, Home

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• In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.

  Jean Little

  Home, Doors, Waiting

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• My wife and I replaced our nest with one on wheels. The RV became our new home. It's remarkable how homey it became and how quickly. It's obviously very condensed, and we do travel light, but when you think about what you really need, we have the basics - a bed, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a table to sit at to eat and write.

  David James

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

  Earl Wilson

  Family, Home, Car

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• Sadly, I have met very few people who have a plan for their life. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold, one day at a time. They are reactive rather than proactive. They may plan their careers, the building of a new home, or even a vacation. But it never occurs to them to plan their life.

  Michael Hyatt

  Home, Vacation, Careers

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• Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

  Angie Harmon

  Home, Kind, Not Happy

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• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

  James Hillman

  Children, Home, White

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview With Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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• I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, Home, Nostalgia

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