Famous Quotes & Sayings

LaVell Edwards

My sons served excellent missions, and returned to participate in college athletics. In their letters home, and even now that they have been back for some time, they frequently mention that the experiences in the mission field were the choicest and most gratifying of their lives. You young men, begin to prepare yourselves now for this marvelous experience.

Lauryn Hill

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

Laini Taylor

It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

Lisa Kleypas

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

Lisa Kleypas

Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

John Updike

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

John Updike

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

John Shadegg

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

John Shadegg

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

John Shadegg

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

John Redwood

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.

John Ratzenberger

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

James Lee Burke

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

James Jeans

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

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.

Friedrich Schiller

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

Frederick Sanger

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River