Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

Heidi Julavits

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.

Heath Ledger

We're actors at the end of the day. I don't take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love... when I hear wrap, it's the most exciting part of my day. I'm the first to have my make-up off, in the car, out. I've gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there.

Heath Ledger

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Hayley Williams

We [Paramore] are very different people at home, but the people that we are on-stage is just a side of us that our crowd and the audience that comes to our shows brings out of us. Different people bring different sides out of each other, and for sure our fans bring out the most hyper and ridiculous side of us because we get so psyched to see everyone when we're on stage.

Hayley Williams

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

Hayley Mills

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

Herta Muller

Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.

Hesiod

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Herodotus

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Henry Paulson

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

Helen Oyeyemi

Home is where your teapots are.

Helen Rowland

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

Helen Mirren

Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.

Hayden Fry

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

Heraclitus

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

Henry Ward Beecher

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Henry Ward Beecher

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

Henry Ward Beecher

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

Henry Ward Beecher

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Henry James Sumner Maine

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Henry James

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Helen Suzman

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

Helen Clark

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

John Krasinski

The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.

Joe Manchin

The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.