Old Family Home Quotes

#1. Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

Robert Laxalt

#2. I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom.

Ren Ng

#3. During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times ...

Sally Carrighar

#4. I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.

Graydon Carter

#5. Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.

Charles Dickens

#6. Love is a conquest! Love is war!

Marissa Meyer

#7. I miss you like crazy.
Jay

Kimberly Derting

#8. Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

Desmond Tutu

#9. I'm looking at the ruins of my own existence and knowing, with a sickening certainty, that my old home and my old life have been truly destroyed.

K.C. Finn

#10. Chewbacca's back home, looking for his family. Luke's searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo's got nothing to smuggle, nowhere to gamble, no foolish Rebellion to fight for. He's like the Falcon: retired to a hangar somewhere, waiting for something, anything, to happen.

Chuck Wendig

#11. I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

Kym Whitley

#12. I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.

Kiefer Sutherland

#13. I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!

Kathy Bryson

#14. My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Johnny Cash

#15. Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Arabella Weir

#16. These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

Rebecca Wells

#17. When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

Becky G

#18. She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations.

Ian McEwan

#19. God created us to thrive on encouragement from others

Willie Robertson

#20. Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

Ben Stein

#21. The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.

Terry Wogan

#22. For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.

Robbie Jones