Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dryden

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

John Masefield

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

John Mayer

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

John Linder

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

John Lennon

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

John Lennon

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

John Landgraf

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Lasseter

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

John L. Lewis

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

John L. Lewis

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

Jodie Foster

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

Jimmy Chamberlin

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

Jimmy Carr

If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

Justin Timberlake

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

Julie Burchill

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

Julie Burchill

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

Judith McNaught

Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.

Judith Martin

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

Josh Groban

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Josh Groban

When I started in the music business, travel became a huge part of my world, where it hadn't been at all. I visited parts of the world that I'd never been to and found that I was spending maybe 30 days at home a year.

Josh Hartnett

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

Katherine Boo

Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?

Karen Armstrong

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

Joyce Meyer

It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!

Joyce Meyer

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

Katharine Whitehorn

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

Kate Klise

What’s wrong with just talking? Isn’t that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?

Kate Forsyth

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?

Kate Middleton

I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

Kate Hudson

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Karen Maitland

Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth. When you no longer have to remember which tale of your own past is true and which is an invention, when you know that you are an invention, then is the time to seek out your home. Perhaps only when you have come to understand that can you finally reach home.