“Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.”
Home is more than an address. These quotes explore belonging, comfort, rootedness, and the feeling of being in the one place where you can be completely yourself. Some are about houses; most are about something less tangible.
“Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.”
“Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.”
“We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.”
“I 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.”
“I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.”
“I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.”
“Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.”
“One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.”
“I 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.”
“The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”
“I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.”
“I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.”
“I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.”
“While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.”
“You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.”
“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”