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"What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears."
"Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here."
"If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home."
"The brave find a home in every land."
"Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me."
"My heart lives in so many places. With so many people. But God whispers to me that I really have only one home, and that is with Him. I will never be content on this earth. I will always be a nomad. It was meant to be that way. My heart was created with a desire for a home, a nest, a sanctuary, and that can be found only with Him in Heaven."
"True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts."
"Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?"
"O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one."
"There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair."
"Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave."
"The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad."
"Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home."
"If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"
"Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."
"I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go."
"My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music."
"The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people."
"The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches."
"For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And gave me roughage in my diet, And tucked me in my bed at eight, And clipped my hair, and marked my weight, And watched me as I sat and stood: That I might grow to womanhood To hear a whistle and drop my wits And break my heart to clattering bits."
