Quotes on Home

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Author: Hank Aaron

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

Author: Hank Aaron

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Author: Edward Abbey

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

Author: Bud Abbott

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

Author: Grace Abbott

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

Author: F. Abraham

Home wasn't built in a day.

Author: Jane Ace

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Author: Marcel Achard

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Author: Red Adair

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Author: Jane Addams

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

Author: Casey Affleck

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

Author: Andre Agassi

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Author: Eden Ahbez

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Author: Kamal Ahmed

We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

Author: Carlos Alazraqui

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Author: Amos Alcott

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Author: Alan Alda

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

Author: Jean Alesi

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.

Author: Gary Allan

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

Author: Florence Allen

America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live.

Author: Rick Allen

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

Author: Ted Allen

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Author: Woody Allen

But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.

Author: Luther Allison

The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.

Author: June Allyson

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

Author: June Allyson

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

Author: Carl Anderson

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.

Author: Elizabeth Anderson

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

Author: Kevin Anderson

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

Author: Louie Anderson

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

Author: Maya Angelou

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Author: Maya Angelou

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

Author: Keren Ann

I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.

Author: Keren Ann

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Author: Francesca Annis

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

Author: Piers Anthony

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

Author: Sergio Aragones

We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.

Author: Tom Araya

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

Author: Dick Armey

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Author: Matthew Arnold

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

Author: Arthur Ashe

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

Author: Jane Asher

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

Author: Jane Asher

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

Author: Armand Assante

We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.

Author: John Atkinson

I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

Author: Ron Atkinson

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Author: David Attenborough

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

Author: John Audubon

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Author: Jane Austen

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

Author: Sherman Austin

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

Author: Tracy Austin

These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.

Author: Frankie Avalon

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

Author: Emanuel Ax

The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

Author: Jillian Bach

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Author: Max Baer

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Author: Beryl Bainbridge

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Author: Russell Baker

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Author: Lucille Ball

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

Author: Eric Bana

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Author: Leslie Banks

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Author: Russell Banks

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

Author: Roger Bannister

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

Author: Travis Barker

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

Author: Michael Barnes

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

Author: Julia Barr

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Author: Roseanne Barr

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

Author: Martin Bashir

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Author: Matsuo Basho

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Author: Anne Baxter

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

Author: Ann Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Author: Melody Beattie

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Author: Francis Beaumont

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

Author: Alison Bechdel

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Author: Beck

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

Author: Boris Becker

Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

Author: Kabir Bedi

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

Author: Jason Behr

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Author: Daniel Bell

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

Author: Kristen Bell

I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day.

Author: Kristen Bell

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Author: Robert Bellah

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Author: Robert Bellah

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Author: Dirk Benedict

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.

Author: Annette Bening

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

Author: Tom Berenger

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

Author: Candice Bergen

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Author: John Berger

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.

Author: Corbin Bernsen

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

Author: Michael Berryman

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

Author: Alvah Bessie

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Author: Jeff Bezos

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

Author: Jello Biafra

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Author: Joe Biden

I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home.

Author: Jessica Biel

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

Author: Jessica Biel

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

Author: Buffalo Bill

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

Author: Buffalo Bill

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

Author: Buffalo Bill

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

Author: Buffalo Bill

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Author: Josh Billings

It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person.

Author: Rachel Bilson

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

Author: Jane Birkin

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

Author: Claudia Black

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

Author: Clint Black

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

Author: James Black

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.

Author: James Black

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

Author: Honor Blackman

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

Author: Richard Blackmore

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

Author: Harry Blackmun

Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.

Author: Joan Blades

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Author: Mary Blakely

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.

Author: Bradley Blakeman

We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

Author: Arthur Blank

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!

Author: Corbin Bleu

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Author: Allan Bloom

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

Author: Lionel Blue

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Author: Lionel Blue

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

Author: Matt Blunt

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Author: Matt Blunt

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Author: Robert Bly

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Author: Franz Boas

Because I practice often with my children at home.

Author: Andrea Bocelli

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

Every dog is a lion at home.

Author: H. Bohn

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

Author: David Boies

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

Author: Marc Bolan

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

Author: Kit Bond

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

Author: Barry Bonds

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

Author: John Bonham

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Author: Daniel Boone

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

Author: Daniel Boone

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Author: Debby Boone

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

Author: Lizzie Borden

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

Author: Lizzie Borden

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

Author: Leonard Boswell

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

Author: Leonard Boswell

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

Author: Malcolm Boyd

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Author: Malcolm Boyd

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

Author: Paul Boyer

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

Author: Lara Boyle

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

Author: James Brady

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

Author: Eric Braeden

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Author: David Brainerd