Famous Quotes & Sayings

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

James Russell Lowell

Many make the household but only one the home.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home is the nicest word there is.

Larry Gelbart

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

Larry Flynt

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

Larry Hagman

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations.

Libba Bray

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Libba Bray

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

Friedrich Schiller

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Harvey Fierstein

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Louise Hay

My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room.

Genevieve Gorder

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

Genghis Khan

Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

Steve Ross

And home rule is a possibility with us. It's an interesting option at this point. But I don't want to make it sound as a threat.

A home run at least. That's what we need.

Morgan Freeman

You want to be home about three weeks after you left in a big way but the family's okay, particularly if you're going someplace you never been before.

You want to take them all home with you, but you can't,

Brian Gionta

You want to take that (home ice) and use it to your advantage. You know how important it is in the playoffs.

Jacob Latimore

My favorite movie of all time is 'Home Alone 3.'

Jacob Hacker

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Henry Rollins

Anywhere you hang yourself is home.

Henry Rollins

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

Henry Rollins

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

Henry B. Eyring

So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home.

Henry Adams

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.

Henry A. Kissinger

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

Henry A. Kissinger

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

Henry A. Kissinger

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.