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Home Quotes

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion.

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

What an extraordinary people the Americans are! Their hospitality is a revelation to me and they make you feel at home and at ease in a way that I have never before experienced.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning and come home in the evening and have nothing to say.

I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.