“If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.”
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“By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.”
“I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.”
“I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.”
“The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.”
“My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.”
“Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.”
“But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.”
“I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.”
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
“I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.”
“Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.”
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.”
“Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.”
“If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.”
“Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.”
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
“I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.”
“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.”
“When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.”
“I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.”
“When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.”
“We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.”
“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.”