Quotes of: Going-home Keyword

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want to never stop growing as a person. I’d love to be well over 8 feet tall.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want to buy you a pair of YAP, or Yellow Admiration Pants (they have no crotch), and have you talk dirty to me.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want to be able to type 60 words per minute without repeatedly typing one-letter words like “I” or “A.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I've never had a home before." That must have been all the sweets talking; I'd never have told him otherwise. "I mean, staying with Li, I never felt like I belonged. That's all." Sam touched my wrist, making me shiver. "You always have a home with me...

Incarnate

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Kevin McCloud's 43 Principles of Home: Enjoying Life in the 21st Century.

Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.

Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: How to Eat Healthier, Live Longer, and Feel Better Every Day by Bringing Home the Happiest Place on Earth

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be— *that* was magical.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn't, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)

Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a framework on top of mystery because we need someplace to live, ...

On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and the goddamned wind.

Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks

...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.

Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks

...it does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.

Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. Pe...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add to the confusion, Vitamin K has nothing to do with an alphabetical sequence. It was called K because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, dubbed it "koag...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with the breakdown of the family. The family is ...

Quentin L. Cook