904 private quotes tagged home

“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”— George Eliot

“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”— George Bernard Shaw

“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.”— Ronald Reagan

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”— George Bernard Shaw

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”— George Bernard Shaw

“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”— Winston Churchill

“If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.”— Jack Welch

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”— Benjamin Franklin

“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A home without books is a body without soul.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”— Alfred Tennyson

“The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”— James Madison

“A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.”— Rodney Dangerfield

“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”— Jackie Kennedy

“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.”— Steve Jobs

“When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.”— Oliver Reed

“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.”— Doug Larson

“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.”— Chaim Potok

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”— Robert Rodriguez

“A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.”— Ivor Novello

“Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.”— Henry Drummond

“I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.”— Anna Nicole Smith

“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.”— Mark Burnett