Quotes About The Home Stretch

#1. Memory has a way of slipping a few gears after sixty-five, when people round the third turn start down the home stretch. He

Stephen King

#2. And all the while she shoveled forkfuls into her mouth like a pie-eating contestant in the home stretch.

Cathy Skendrovich

#3. My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

Samuel Goldwyn

#4. It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

Kyle D. Pruett

#5. When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Jessica Lange

#6. Given the limits of our knowledge of such psychological problems as belief and motivation, the question of sincerity ... is misleading and fruitless.

Donald Weinstein

#7. It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not
to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is
against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

George Sheehan

#8. -What is this?
-This life?
Our sitting here by lanternlight together
Amid the wreckage of a former home?
You won't deny the lantern isn't new.
The stove is not, and you are not to me,
Nor I to you.

Robert Frost

#9. Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?

Catherine Hardwicke

#10. I'm drunk-nonsensical tired out.

Robert Frost

#11. The language of sex seemed to echo with Shop: as a Playboy, apparently, you got hammered or plastered, then you nailed or screwed or drilled a woman who was built, or had a rack.

Lisa Grunwald

#12. It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must end occupation and aggression, and our actions won't take much longer after that.

Khaled Mashal

#13. To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

Carl Honore

#14. Photography ... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

Paul Strand

#15. Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.

Markus Zusak

#16. A giggler always wins his/her enemies.

Euginia Herlihy

#17. 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

Peter Jackson

#18. -No, this is no begining.
-Then an end?
-End is a gloomy word.

Robert Frost

#19. The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

Mick Jagger

#20. We just became very good friends [ with Dwight Eisenhower ], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

Arnold Palmer

#21. Mercy's eyes held equal parts shock, and delight. "Riley."
He felt his lips stretch even wider. "I think we need to celebrate with some brand-new etchings."
His cat's laugh was surprised and warm and the sound of home. "It's your etchings that got us into this position.

Nalini Singh

#22. It was funny how you could go somewhere and your whole life could stretch out and then you could come home and have it all shrink back to the way it was before. It was funny that it didn't stay stretched.

Jodi Lynn Anderson