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#1. The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

Ellsworth Huntington

#2. I wouldn't have made it back if it weren't for you, Earwig. I just kept telling myself, every day, every hour, that I had to live through it to come home for you.

Sandra Kring

#3. New York will be my home for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned.

Jeremy Shockey

#4. Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

Mark Hoppus

#5. His fingers stroked her wrist lightly, making her shiver. You are home for me now.

Cassandra Clare

#6. A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Samuel Johnson

#7. Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.

Deepak Chopra

#8. I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Derek Luke

#9. Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Jane Austen

#10. Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it ... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

John Mayer

#11. I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

Jermaine O'Neal

#12. I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'

David Archuleta

#13. (On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back.

Leonel Manzano

#14. I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

Louise Rennison

#15. Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

Josh Hartnett

#16. Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

Wilson Mizner

#17. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home for wearing what you like.

George Ade

#18. Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#19. When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Felix Dennis

#20. I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Zadie Smith

#21. I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

Chiune Sugihara

#22. You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.

Martha Stewart

#23. Is it not so presumptuous to write a word? To write a word is to give the word a space all of its own. You build a home for it and hope it can find itself at home among all the other words. Nestled in a new place.

Meia Geddes

#24. A home for everything, and like goes with like....If you consistently apply [this principle] all over your life, your life will be and remain organized.

Tim Challies

#25. The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Richard Serra

#26. When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?" When it's written well, a lot of those things go away and you can't not do it.

Michael Cudlitz

#27. Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

Kenneth Keniston

#28. Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

Satya Nadella

#29. I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#30. I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.

Jose Andres

#31. For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.

Amanda Schull

#32. But it's easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.

Andrew James Pritchard

#33. They talk some more, Will prompting Peter into remembering their early childhood on the barge. How their parents always went that extra mile to make their infancy special, like the time they brought a freshly killed department store Santa Clause home for their midnight Christmas feast.

Matt Haig

#34. When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.

Rudolf Dreikurs

#35. I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

Joan Jett

#36. Bean Throwing Day (Japan): Usually February 3 or q,. A day to toss away your bad luck and welcome good fortune. Try making a bean salad, then plant at least one of the beans in the earth near your home for providence all year.
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Patricia J. Telesco

#37. Ever since I came to the WWE four years ago, there's been one home for Rey Mysterio. SmackDown! In this ring, in this very ring is where I won the World Title. This is my home. These are my people.

Oscar Gutierrez

#38. One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Alfred Kazin

#39. I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Gordon Ramsay

#40. Being inside her feels like being home, it feels like being in love, it feels like everything sweet and beautiful and nice in the world. Every time I come in her I hope I'm making a home for myself, a place where I belong.

Karina Halle

#41. Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged or what. Then she started giggling and I had the feeling we were thinking the same thing, namely, some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

Meg Rosoff

#42. I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

Josh Turner

#43. She has been the keeper of home for me, and I have been the keeper of journey for her. And now we look for the lost portion in each other.

Sue Monk Kidd

#44. Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.

Daron Malakian

#45. I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

Suzi Quatro

#46. At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

M.I.A.

#47. [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

Fay Faron

#48. People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.

Nolan Bushnell

#49. Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of a home for the homeless, the end of exile, the replanting of the garden, the rebuilding of the house.

N. T. Wright

#50. A brick and a blanket would be a great present for someone building a home for themselves. Simply wrap the brick in the blanket and they're one brick closer to a house, and they won't freeze at night.

Nicole McKay

#51. I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

Cat Cora

#52. His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

Arthur Balfour

#53. Overall, the shack was too miserable to serve as a storage space for old banana peels, let alone as a home for three young people, and I confess that if I had been told that it was my home I probably would have lain on the bales of hay and thrown a temper tantrum.

Lemony Snicket

#54. Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice ... They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

Richard G. Scott

#55. Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

#56. I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

Jay Mohr

#57. O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

Lady Gaga

#58. The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#59. To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

Vincent Van Gogh

#60. All sorts of men don't make it home for the births of their children. But My mother was out of town on the day I was born, so she missed it, just seems ... seems like a more profound complaint, somehow.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#61. I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

Daniel Johns

#62. I have to go back home for a while." "Ohio?" "Omaha." "Right. Omaha. Why?

Matthew Norman

#63. When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

Kevin Costner

#64. We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

Francis Maude

#65. Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

Glen Robinson

#66. Madness - that old, dear friend of mine - has come home for a visit. And I welcome its return with open arms.

Heather Lyons

#67. I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad

Anne Enright

#68. I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

Sam Brownback

#69. I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Debbi Fields

#70. If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Molly Ringwald

#71. I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

Robin Zander

#72. I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.

Jeanette Winterson

#73. The wooden shelves were tall and packed with worn covers of books read many times over. Pages were yellowed and paperbacks had arched spines like old sway-backed horses. It was an old folks' home for secondhand books, with that smell of old newsprint and slightly musty wood smell.

Nathan Fillion

#74. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote

Leo Tolstoy

#75. I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home ... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

Elizabeth Warren

#76. Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

Daniel Greenberg

#77. My God, Mace was all man, the kind of man every warm-blooded woman would love to take home for the night, tie to her bed and let loose on. Sitting this close to him, my mind conjured up a long list of things I could do, just with my mouth.

Lola Stark

#78. Home in Missoula,
Home in Truckee,
Home in Opelousas,
Ain't no home for me.
Home in old Medora,
Home in Wounded Knee,
Home in Ogallala,
Home I'll never be

Jack Kerouac

#79. I'm not afraid to die, for I know the joys of heaven are waiting. My greatest desire is to live today in anticipation of tomorrow and be ready to be welcomed into His home for all eternity. Will you be making the journey with me?

Billy Graham

#80. If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

Dave Barry

#81. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

Suzanne Collins

#82. Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

Ellie Goulding

#83. The church is a home for all to come together, regardless of the depth or the height of our testimony. I know of no sign on the doors of our meetinghouses that says, Your testimony must be this tall to enter.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#84. If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

Erich Hartmann

#85. Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

Michael Bolton

#86. Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

Winifred Kirkland

#87. It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just do. It's more difficult to stand by your convictions and have people berate you on both sides and feel like there's no home for you.

LeCrae

#88. Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

Owen Gingerich

#89. My life is too short, and God's work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

George Eliot

#90. For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home ... for the rest of my life, watching all of you go off one by one.

Melanie Benjamin

#91. Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Peter Singer

#92. I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

Bryan Fuller

#93. Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#94. Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child, and being older hasn't changed that.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#95. It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery.

Kage Baker

#96. I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

Andrea Bocelli

#97. My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing.

Michael Anthony

#98. Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

Jeanette Winterson

#99. What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked like a library book, like your relatives could check you out and take you home for a couple of weeks. Would there be an overdue penalty if they were late bringing back the dead?

Brian Keene

#100. Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.

Donald Hall