Old Home Place Quotes

#1. Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.

Paul Burch

#2. My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Dolly Parton

#3. The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.

Chris Lynch

#4. I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

Michael D. Higgins

#5. It's an old place, but it sings in the darkness and is, in its own quirky little way, alive. It's home.

Jim Butcher

#6. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing..I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.

H. H. Holmes

#8. I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

Payne Stewart

#9. If your going to be a jackass then do it outside of your home, as your home is supposed to be a place of love and safety, it's your sanctuary from the outside world. The only place where we can truly be accepted.

Lisa Marie Main

#10. I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Mary Kay Blakely

#12. A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

Gene R. Cook

#13. People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

Ivanka Trump

#14. Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight.
I was safe.
I was warm.
I was home.

Ally Carter

#15. One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#16. Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out.

Stephen King

#18. At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.

Patrick Stewart

#19. I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

Bear Bryant

#20. Leaning his forehead against Michael's, Dominic admitted, I didn't dance then. I think I was waiting for you.

Isabelle Rowan

#21. And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

Scott Stapp

#22. Like the saints of old, we no longer chase after the passing pleasures of this world.34 Instead, our eyes are fixed on heaven, our true home, the place where Christ is.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#23. We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
We tell her, home is the only place she should be
Then we complain that she's too
unworldly to be our friend

John Lennon

#24. Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

William Jerome

#25. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.

Susanna Kearsley

#26. My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

Kim Edwards