Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Henry David Thoreau

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

Henry David Thoreau

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

Henry David Thoreau

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Henry David Thoreau

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

Jill Wagner

Wipeout is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!

Jilly Cooper

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Jilly Cooper

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

Jilly Cooper

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Jillian Michaels

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

Jill Scott

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.

Jill Scott

I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.

Jessica Lucas

If youre going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

Jessica Ennis

Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.

Jessica Lange

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Jeremy Bulloch

Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

Jeremy Clarkson

Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

Esha Gupta

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.

Esther Dyson

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

Ernest Hemingway

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

Ernest Hemingway

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Ernest Hemingway

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

Ernest Hemingway

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

Etta James

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

Ethel Waters

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.

Erwin McManus

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Erykah Badu

They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.

Erykah Badu

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

Ernest Hollings

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.