Back Home Quotes - Page 6

• To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

  Don DeLillo

  Home, Errors, Stupidity

  1982 James Axton. The Names, ch.3.

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• Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Home, Gay, Victory

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

  Danny Brown

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

  Jim Cooper

  Real, Clueless, Home

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• I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Home, Writing

  "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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• My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family, my aunties, grandparents, is in Africa.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Mom, Home, Years

  Source: www.complex.com

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Home, Saws, Bigs

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• Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Home, Eye

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• The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Important, Remember

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “The Rince Cycle”, p.84, Oberon Books

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• A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

  Nicholas Sparks

  Home, First Love, Second Chance

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• I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

  Rob Sheffield

  Summer, Home, Kids

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• When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.

  Megan McCafferty

  Wise, Home, School

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1026, Crown

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• I want to be with you as much as possible, Ronnie. You're smart and funny and you're honest. I trust you. I trust us. Yeah, I'm leaving and you're going back home. But neither of those things changes the way I feel about you. And my feelings aren't going to change simply because I'm going to Vanderbilt. I love you more than I've ever loved anyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Smart, I Love You More, Home

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• We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

  Honore de Balzac

  Home, Light, Flew

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• But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Home, Like Her

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• They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

  Toni Morrison

  Summer, Girlfriend, Laughter

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Home, Thinking, Finding Yourself

  "I Left Home to Find Home". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 06, 2005.

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• Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed [the song] together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the board turning knobs. The atmosphere and the vibe down there was just super cool.

  Alex da Kid

  Song, Home, Artist

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• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Home, Views, Want

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• General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

  Chief Joseph

  Moving, Home, People

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• 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 Lee Burke

  Home, Air, People

  James Lee Burke (2014). “In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Islands, Games

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• So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Thinking, Cells

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

  Mitt Romney

  Home, Order, Transition

  "Romney: Illegal Immigrants Who Want a Green Card Must First Return Home". Mitt Romney's statement on illegal immigration during a town hall meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, www.foxnews.com. December 9, 2011.

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• 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 Schweitzer

  Home, Lobbyists, Forget

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