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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Tags: Future, School ✍ Author: Jane AddamsI live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
Tags: Eyes, Year ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.
Tags: America, Time ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhen people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
Tags: Care, Happy ✍ Author: Ferran AdriaI grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.
Tags: Esteem, Getting ✍ Author: Ben AffleckI am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.
Tags: Days, Process ✍ Author: Casey AffleckI'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
Tags: Bad, Sure ✍ Author: Andre AgassiMy father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
Tags: Mother, Time ✍ Author: Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeWale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
Tags: Brave, Means ✍ Author: Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeThe fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
Tags: Bad, Fire ✍ Author: Shmuel Yosef AgnonI love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!
Tags: Good, Love ✍ Author: Sigrid AgrenSometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies.
Tags: Happen, Past ✍ Author: Dianna AgronI was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.
Tags: Chaos, Felt ✍ Author: Christina AguileraI will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
Tags: Grow, Son ✍ Author: Christina AguileraThe earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
Tags: Heart, Mind ✍ Author: Eden AhbezWe have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.
Tags: Family, Work ✍ Author: Cecelia AhernAh, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
Tags: Happen, Saying ✍ Author: Kamal AhmedAt home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Tags: Humble, Nice ✍ Author: Muhammad AliBasically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Tags: Marriage, Wife ✍ Author: Woody AllenI long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Tags: Human, Wherever ✍ Author: Maya AngelouThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Tags: Lives, Place ✍ Author: Maya AngelouIsrael was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
Tags: Hope, Success ✍ Author: John F. KennedyThere is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
Tags: Between, Playing ✍ Author: Marilyn MonroeVisit partners pages
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Tags: Love, Put ✍ Author: Mother TeresaLove begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Tags: Care, Love ✍ Author: Mother TeresaWe should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
Tags: War ✍ Author: Ronald ReaganIt's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Tags: Country ✍ Author: Ronald ReaganWhen I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Tags: Government, Time ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillThe challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.
Tags: After, Working ✍ Author: Howard BachThe simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Tags: Change, Once ✍ Author: Richard BachI like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
Tags: Creative, Night ✍ Author: Amitabh BachchanDearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.
Tags: Stress, Work ✍ Author: Amitabh BachchanIf I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Tags: Dream, Peace ✍ Author: Gaston BachelardI was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
Tags: Dreams, Reality ✍ Author: Michelle BacheletBy encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
Tags: Off, While ✍ Author: Spencer BachusI define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
Tags: Fear, Knowing ✍ Author: Max BaerWhen I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
Tags: Start, Working ✍ Author: David BaileyI'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.
Tags: Away, Understand ✍ Author: Donovan BaileyI've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
Tags: Men, Money ✍ Author: Beryl BainbridgeYou leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Tags: Family, Leave ✍ Author: Anita BakerWhen I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.
Tags: Country, Place ✍ Author: Josephine BakerWhat the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
Tags: Grow, Seem ✍ Author: Russell BakerI used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.
Tags: Children, Time ✍ Author: Stephen BakerAll good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
Tags: Good, Lead ✍ Author: Andre BalazsCheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
Tags: Here, Innocent ✍ Author: Alec BaldwinWhen I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
Tags: Last, Read ✍ Author: Alan BallYou see much more of your children once they leave home.
Tags: Children, Funny ✍ Author: Lucille BallWe want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
Tags: Leave, Others ✍ Author: Afrika BambaataaI race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.
Tags: Tell, Try ✍ Author: Eric BanaWhen I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.
Tags: Family, Time ✍ Author: Eric BanaWhen I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.
Tags: Between, Job ✍ Author: Eric BanaI have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.
Tags: House, Worth ✍ Author: Antonio BanderasI often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
Tags: Sometimes, Time ✍ Author: Antonio BanderasIn all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Tags: Money, Time ✍ Author: Leslie BanksI much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
Tags: Book, Life ✍ Author: Russell BanksFor years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Tags: Marriage, Time ✍ Author: Erma BombeckOnce you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
Tags: Once, Women ✍ Author: Erma BombeckBeing a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Tags: Alone, Work ✍ Author: Erma BombeckAll philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Tags: Nonsense, Others ✍ Author: Samuel ButlerI was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.
Tags: Best, Making ✍ Author: Meg CabotI hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.
Tags: Character, Training ✍ Author: John CageI bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.
Tags: Crazy, Hour ✍ Author: John CageMy idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.
Tags: Idea, Short ✍ Author: James CagneyTalking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
Tags: Family, Friends ✍ Author: Colbie CaillatIf you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.
Tags: Friends, Wife ✍ Author: Michael CaineI think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
Tags: Feelings, Others ✍ Author: Michael CaineI don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.
Tags: Black, Work ✍ Author: James CameronWhen it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
Tags: Book, Enough ✍ Author: Julia CameronYes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.
Tags: Fighting, Game ✍ Author: Bert CampanerisIf you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
Tags: Evening, Life ✍ Author: Neve CampbellPerformers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
Tags: Try, Work ✍ Author: Jane CampionI am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
Tags: Country, Understand ✍ Author: Thomas CampionTheo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.
Tags: Family, Him ✍ Author: Trishelle CannatellaI always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.
Tags: Time, Work ✍ Author: Bobby CannavaleHunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as long as there are caring people to lend a hand. I've had to struggle in my past and I know what it's like to go without, so I try to do as much as I can to help bring awareness to an issue that hits very close to home for me.
Tags: Food, Struggle ✍ Author: Nick CannonI tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!
Tags: Best, Dreams ✍ Author: Nick CannonMost aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.
Tags: Passion, Put ✍ Author: Nick CannonThe fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Tags: Between, Love ✍ Author: Jose CansecoBecause we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.
Tags: Less, Problem ✍ Author: Jim CantalupoRonald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business.
Tags: After, Business ✍ Author: Jim CantalupoA home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.
Tags: Family, Foundation ✍ Author: Eric CantonaThis was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
Tags: Great, Life ✍ Author: Jim CapaldiIf you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Tags: Fear, Motivational ✍ Author: Dale CarnegieInaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Tags: Courage, Fear ✍ Author: Dale CarnegieThe strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Tags: Integrity, Strength ✍ Author: Paulo CoelhoBefore deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
Tags: Stay, Week ✍ Author: Bill CopelandHuman beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Tags: Children, Human ✍ Author: Bill CosbyIt felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.
Tags: Good, Work ✍ Author: James D\'arcyI love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.
Tags: Love, Music ✍ Author: Puff DaddyUnless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Tags: Living, Young ✍ Author: Roald DahlIn my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.
Tags: Opinion, Vote ✍ Author: William M. DaleyImagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Tags: Baseball, Win ✍ Author: Salvador DaliMy girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
Tags: Food, Love ✍ Author: Carson Daly