Home Quote by Jean Stafford Download Open image “For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.” — Jean Stafford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home Left Practical
I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work. — Karen Handel Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage. — Becky G Copy Share Image
So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove.… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“I read Wolfe’s new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“If she ever got fat, she thought, or if she ever said anything fat, she would lock herself in a bathroom and stay there… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“He whirled round and round in his rapid love; it pricked him on the breastbone like a needle. He wanted to be shut up… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
