Back Home Quotes - Page 8

• I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

  Jewel

  Home, Thinking, Trying

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• I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

  Jim DeMint

  Home, Museums, Needs

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Zones and Ceilings of National Debt" by Samantha Hening, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Home, People, India

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Home, Thinking

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading. It’s gotten to the point where I feel like it was a dream because everything has gone back almost exactly to how it was before it all happened. It's possible to forget and it’s only when someone asks ‘when’s the movie coming out?’ that I remember 'oh yes, that'.

  Evanna Lynch

  Dream, Home, Connections

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• We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Home, Kids, Animal

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• Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.

  Tad R. Callister

  Jesus, Home, People

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• I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

  Andrew Whitworth

  Home, Thinking, Messages

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• Tom Coburn never forgot that members of Congress are spending the hard-earned money of the people back home. Even a lot of conservatives end up forgetting that. Here's hoping that back in the private sector, Tom Coburn keeps up the fight for his beliefs and that he remains a constant reminder to lawmakers and the White House of ethical standards to which all should aspire.

  John Fund

  Home, Fighting, White

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• A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.

  Ayman Mohyeldin

  Hate, Book, Home

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• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  Vin Diesel

  Inspirational, Dream, New York

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• I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Home, Men, Yankees

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• For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Years, Twenties

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.200, Anchor

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• He does what he wants, and I don’t ask,” he said. “He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It’s not my business. But if you’re asking me if I’ve brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don’t want anybody but you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Home, Feet

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2016, Simon and Schuster

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• My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

  DeeDee Trotter

  Home, Butterfly, Warrior

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• Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

  Elvis Presley

  Home, Thinking, Want

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• And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. Don't hide anymore; none of us. That is the essence of our responsibility. And if we're not willing to do it, we're not worthy to be seated right here. We fail our country. If we don't debate this, if we don't debate this, we are not worthy of our country. We fail our country.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Home, Responsibility

  "The Battle for Iraq; Ghosts From the Past". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. January 25, 2007.

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.

  Rick Riordan

  Tired, Home, Bird

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• What do you mean? Grace Brisbane, you do not mean that you're not going back home again. Tell me that this was just because you were momentarily angry at them for grounding you. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night. But don't tell me you think it's forever!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, Mean, Boys

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.531, Scholastic Inc.

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• Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Home, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.120, Random House

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• Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby Film tie-in Edition: Official Film Edition including interview with Baz Luhrmann”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

  Jane Siberry

  Dog, Home, Sheep

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• What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Writing, Views

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.167, National Geographic Books

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• There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

  Sophie Cookson

  New York, Crazy, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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