Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

Nelson Mandela

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

Nelson Mandela

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

Kiri Te Kanawa

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

Oprah Winfrey

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!

Oliver Goldsmith

What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

Odeya Rush

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

Odeya Rush

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

Margaret Atwood

Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Margaret Atwood

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Marcus Tullius Cicero

These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no place more delightful than home.

Marcel Achard

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.

Marcel Dionne

The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.

Marc Bolan

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

Mara Liasson

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

Khloe Kardashian

When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

Kevin McCloud

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

Kevin McCloud

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

Kevin Mitnick

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

Kenny Hickey

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

Kenny Guinn

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Kenny Marchant

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

Kenny Rogers

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

Kelly Cutrone

If you're 5' 6", just stay home. Don't pretend you're 5' 8" or 5' 9". If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that's fine, you can do glamour, but you're not going to do runway. If you're over 29 - 26, even - I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

Kelly Clarkson

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.