First Home Quotes

• The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Home, Acceptance

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Owning A Home, House

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.34, Penguin

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• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Peace, Home

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`.

  Diana Dors

  Sex, Home, Naughty

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• The human heart is the first home of democracy.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Heart, Democracy

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)

  William Goldman

  Mother, Home, Night

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.38, A&C Black

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• In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was blown away when we came out for our first home match—I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. The seniors would bring their whole stereo system. We started by yelling and stuff inside this little room just off the gym; then the coaches said, "Ready. Go!" We threw open the door and came running out. Even when I hear the songs now I get all jacked up.

  Karch Kiraly

  Senior, Running, Song

  Source: www.stack.com

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• The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Trust, Giving Up, Home

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.

  John Updike

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, 'Way to go. Good job.' But the truth is, I am not really very brave; I am not really very strong; and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am simply doing what God has called me to do as a person who follows Him. He said to feed His sheep and He said to care for 'the least of these,' so that's what I'm doing, with the help of a lot people who make it possible and in the company of those who make my life worth living

  Katie Davis

  Strong, Jobs, Home

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• I think it is such a privilege to give a baby its first home inside your body. [After the pregnancy was over] I found myself massaging my stomach gently. I miss him being in my body -- stretching, hiccupping even. It was a wonderful, deep, loving, fulfilling feeling.

  Celine Dion

  Baby, Pregnancy, Home

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• He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit
  my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm
  living his dream.

  Jorge Posada

  Dream, Running, Father

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• My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.

  Pat Forde

  Monday, Home, Emotional

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• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Humble, Law

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

  Chili Davis

  Running, Home, Games

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• I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

  Tony Oliva

  Running, New York, Home

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• I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Home, Years, London

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

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• a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Distance, Home

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• But Vegas is really my first home.

  David Copperfield

  Home, Vegas, Firsts

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