Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Collins

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

Suzanne Collins

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

Suzanne Collins

And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

Suzanne Collins

Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

Suzanne Collins

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

Suzanne Collins

Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.

Suzanne Collins

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

Suzanne Collins

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

Suzanne Collins

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

Suzanne Collins

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me.

Suzanne Collins

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

Suzanne Collins

You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

Taslima Nasrin

Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

Taslima Nasrin

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Taslima Nasrin

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Scott Westerfeld

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Scott Westerfeld

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

Steven Morrissey

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

Steven Morrissey

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.

Steven Curtis Chapman

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

Steven Brust

I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.

Sun Myung Moon

If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.

Sun Tzu

The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

Sun Tzu

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

Sue Townsend

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

Sue Grafton

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Sue Monk Kidd

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

Sue Monk Kidd

You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.

Strom Thurmond

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

Steven Yeun

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.

Robert Burns

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

Ridley Scott

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

Ridley Scott

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.