Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erma Bombeck

Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes.

Erma Bombeck

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Erin Heatherton

I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home.

Erin Heatherton

At home, I don't like to be just sitting around; I like to go out and do things. It's when I'm the happiest.

Erin Hunter

WindClan has traveled a long time. It's nearly a moon since ShadowClan drove us from our home. The weather is turning colder, and leaf-bare will be here soon. We have no choice but to stay.

Florence King

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

Florence King

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

Florence Nightingale

When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?

Florence Nightingale

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

Ferran Adria

I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.

Fiona Apple

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

Henry Lawson

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

Henry Miller

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

Henning Mankell

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Henny Youngman

All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.

Catfish Hunter

On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

Cate Blanchett

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

Cassandra Clare

You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa

Cassandra Clare

You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place has been your home." His fingers stroked her wrist lightly, making her shiver. "You are home for me now.

Cassandra Clare

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Cassandra Clare

That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.

Cassandra Clare

Normal people dont generally find their homes ransacked by demons.

George Eliot

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

George Eliot

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Grace Abbott

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

Gore Vidal

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

Gina Lollobrigida

I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

Gillian Flynn

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

Gillian Jacobs

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

Harvey Milk

Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.

Harold Pinter

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

James E. Faust

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.