904 private quotes tagged home

“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

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“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

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“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

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

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“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

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“I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.” — John Cusack

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“I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.” — Amber Heard

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“I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.” — Pete Townshend

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“I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.” — Clive Owen

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“I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'” — Courteney Cox

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“I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.” — Chris O'Donnell

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“I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.” — Robert Carlyle

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“I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.” — Emily Mortimer

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“When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.” — Courteney Cox

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“I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.” — Rick Perry

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“If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.” — Marco Rubio

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“Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.” — Mitt Romney

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“America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.” — Mitt Romney

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“When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.” — Rick Perry

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“Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'” — Hillary Clinton

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“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.” — Hillary Clinton

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“For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.” — Mitt Romney

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“So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.” — Barack Obama

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“When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.” — Rick Perry

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