More quotations tagged with “home”
A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Twain's presence. "Before I die," he declared, "I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top." "I have a better idea," Twain replied. "You could stay home in Boston and keep them.
—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
To explain why we become attached to our birthplaces, we pretend that we are trees and speak of "roots." Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.
—Salman Rushdie
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
—Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Where are we really going? Always home!
—Novalis