Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

Barbara Johnson

Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

Barbara Johnson

The most important things in your home are people.

Barbara Johnson

When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Ben Sherwood

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

Ben Roethlisberger

In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

Ben Stein

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

Ben Stein

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Ben Stein

Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

Ben Stein

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

Bayard Taylor

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

Bear Bryant

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

Barbara de Angelis

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

Barbara Corcoran

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Barbara Corcoran

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

Barbara Corcoran

Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

Ashley Judd

The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

Ashley Greene

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

Arthur Bremer

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

Bernie Siegel

I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

Bruce Springsteen

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

Bruce Springsteen

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

Bruce Springsteen

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

Brian Schweitzer

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

Brian Tracy

How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

Brian Tracy

It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!

Brian Jordan

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

Brad Paisley

Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by noon....well I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight.

Brad Paisley

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.