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• When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

  Meryl Streep

  Kids, Parenting, Want

  "Oprah Talks to Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore". www.oprah.com. 2003.

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• Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
  His first best country ever is at home.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Patriotic, Patriotism

  The Traveller l. 73 (1764)

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• In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Sunset, Patriotic

  Letter announcing Alzheimer's diagnosis, November 5, 1994.

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• As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that Brussels, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.

  Joe Biden

  Years, Cities, Patriotism

  "Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2010.

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• Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.

  Joanna Macy

  Peace, Self, Waiting

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• Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

  Mary Matalin

  Numbers, Politics, Uncomfortable

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• Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Ignorance, Political, Degradation

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• The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Mean, Responsibility, Passion

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• I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

  Candace Bushnell

  Single, New York, Thinking

  "Singles get prime time attention" by Jill Brooke, www.cnn.com. October 10, 1995.

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• I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Strength, Gun

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

  John Ruskin

  Sympathy, Country, Father

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• The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

  Freya Stark

  Travel, Feelings, Fruit

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• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Country, Travel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Independent, Ebb And Flow

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Travel, Museums, Tourism

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.4000, Delphi Classics

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• ... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Men, Way

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Distance, Heaven

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.138, Barbour Publishing

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• When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Blessed, Tired

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.86

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• I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

  Debby Boone

  Being Happy, Piano, Singing

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• My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

  Susan Hampshire

  Being Happy, House, Cooking

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• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Friendship, Mom

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• For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, People, Pay

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• By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Change, Nature, Hate

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• We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Jobs, Believe

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• This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Mother, Running, Children

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