904 private quotes tagged home

“I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.” — Jane Pauley

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“The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.” — Florence Welch

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“Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.” — Rowan Atkinson

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“I can't grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don't bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.” — Bobby Flay

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“Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.” — Bobby Flay

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“Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.” — Peter O'Toole

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“By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.” — Esther Williams

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“The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'” — Taylor Lautner

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“Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.” — Robert Carlyle

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“I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.” — Nick Clegg

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“I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.” — Anna Chlumsky

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“I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.” — Steven Gerrard

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“A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.” — Andrew Vachss

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“I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.” — Isabel Allende

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“I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.” — Fergie

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“Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.” — Jill Scott

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“I grew up in a very toxic home.” — Bethenny Frankel

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“A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home.” — Leighton Meester

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“I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.” — Bjorn Lomborg

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“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.” — Robert Morgan

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“I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.” — Florence King

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“When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?” — Jane Smiley

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“This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.” — Brandy Norwood

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“I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

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