Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nate Berkus

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

Nate Berkus

I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

Nate Berkus

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

Nate Berkus

It's important how we feel in our homes, because feeling good makes us more gracious. And that makes it easier to welcome others not only into our homes but into our lives.

Nate Berkus

Your home should tell the story of who you are.

Nate Berkus

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof.

Nandan Nilekani

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

Nancy Reagan

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

Morgan Freeman

In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.

Morgan Freeman

If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.

Morgan Freeman

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Morgan Freeman

One day very soon, we'll be asked: what did we do. And we will say: we did everything we could... we have to... because if we don't there won't be anyone left to ask. We have never faced a crisis this big, that we have never had better ideas to solve. This is our only home. We can choose today to make a world of difference.

Milan Kundera

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Mike Lupica

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

Miguel Syjuco

I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.

Miguel Syjuco

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Marcel Proust

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nothing Exposes our true self more than how we treat each other in the home.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of pleasure. We should lower the noise level in our homes so that the noise of the world will not overpower the still, small voice of the Holy Ghost. One of our greatest goals as parents should be to enjoy the power and influence of the Holy Ghost in our homes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

LaVell Edwards

My sons served excellent missions, and returned to participate in college athletics. In their letters home, and even now that they have been back for some time, they frequently mention that the experiences in the mission field were the choicest and most gratifying of their lives. You young men, begin to prepare yourselves now for this marvelous experience.

Lauryn Hill

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

Laini Taylor

It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

Lisa Kleypas

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

Lisa Kleypas

Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

John Updike

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

John Updike

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

John Shadegg

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

John Shadegg

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

John Redwood

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.

John Ratzenberger

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

James Lee Burke

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

James Jeans

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.