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- If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
- When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
- The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:…
- All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is…
- Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”…
- ... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
- The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.…
More Home Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. — Jane Austen
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers