Quotations About / On: HOME

  • 41.
    my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
    Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
    (Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author. My Shadow (l. 15-16). . . Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 42.
    New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
    (Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842-1911), U.S. chemist and educator. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 4, by Caroline L. Hunt (1912). Written on December 29, 1869. Richards, a Massachusetts native, was away from home at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.)
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  • 43.
    Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
    And so am come abroad to see the world.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Petruchio, in The Taming of the Shrew, act 1, sc. 2, l. 57-8. He has just arrived in Padua from Verona.)
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  • 44.
    Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
    A day's march nearer home.
    (James Montgomery (1771-1854), British poet. At Home in Heaven.)
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  • 45.
    You see much more of your children once they leave home.
    (Lucille Ball (1911-1989), U.S. comedian. The Last Word, ed. Carolyn Warner, ch. 16 (1992).)
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  • 46.
    Prepare for death, if here at night you roam,
    And sign your will before you sup from home.
    (Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. "London.")
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  • 47.
    Before a day was over,
    Home comes the rover,
    For mother's kiss—sweeter this
    Than any other thing!
    (William Allingham (1824-1889), Irish poet. Wishing (l. 21-24). . . Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 48.
    They change, and we, who pass like foam,
    Like dust blown through the streets of Rome,
    Change ever, too; we have no home,
    (John Masefield (1878-1967), British poet. The Passing Strange (l. 61-63). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 49.
    Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
    (John Dewey (1859-1952), U.S. philosopher. Originally published 1934. Art as Experience, ch. 2, Capricorn Books (1958).)
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  • 50.
    I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
    (Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Rambler (London, July 23, 1751), no. 141.)
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