Homes Quotes
840 Homes quotes by 675 unique authors
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But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;…
— Truman Capote
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Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced…
— Paul Rudnick
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I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought…
— William Saroyan
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And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up…
— Charles Dickens
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For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water…
— Edward Abbey
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My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the…
— Anne Fadiman
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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the…
— Isaac Asimov
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to…
— Alain de Botton
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Boys Shack, MEN build homes
— Steve Harvey
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Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles…
— Matt Taibbi
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Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
— Nick Harkaway
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Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied…
— Russell Means
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He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head,…
— Charles Dickens
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I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against…
— Scott Westerfeld
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That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.…
— Barack Obama
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It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed.…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
— Franz Kafka
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number…
— Philip Roth
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Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.
— Lynn Viehl
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