Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Robinson

It was emotional, being our last home game. But what a way to go out.

Germaine Greer

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Gerard Way

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

Gerard Way

I am in the jungle and I am too fast for you. You have teeth and stripes and things that tear. But I am much too fast… You want my flesh, but you don’t know where the jungle is… Only I know where the jungle is… Only I know… I am a gazelle. I am a gazelle and the jungle is my home.

Harry Hamlin

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Harry Dean Stanton

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

Harry Hill

You might heckle me now - but when I get home, I've got a chicken in the oven.

Hans Blix

The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. ...we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes.

Hans Christian Andersen

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

Hal Borland

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Gretchen Wilson

People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'

Greta Scacchi

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Gretchen Rubin

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and faithful and true one to another? There is no simple answer. I acknowledge that. But it appears to me that there are some obvious reasons that account for a very high percentage of these problems. I say this out of experience in dealing with such tragedies. I find selfishness to be the root cause of most of it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

Gordon B. Hinckley

With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch. . . . I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I don't hesitate to say if every family in the world practiced [family home evening], you'd see a very great difference in the solidarity of the families of the world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.

Gladys Taber

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

Gladys Taber

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

Gerrit Smith

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Horace

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

Herbert V. Prochnow

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

Herbert Spencer

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

Herman Melville

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Herb Kelleher

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.

Henry David Thoreau

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Henry David Thoreau

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

Henry David Thoreau

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

Henry David Thoreau

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.