Quotes of: Home-base Keyword

[From trailer] Marv: He's a kid. Kids are stupid. I know I was. Harry: You still are, Marv.

Home Alone

Treebeard: My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Satine: The difference between you and I is that you can leave anytime you choose. But this is my home.

Moulin Rouge!

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

Brie Larson

My mom comes from a really out-there upbringing, so for her, the way she raised me is pretty disciplined. I was home-schooled but more really unschooled, really.

Ellar Coltrane

[trying to quiet the brawling audience] Music hall announcer: Gentlemen, please! You're not at home!

The 39 Steps

Jake Sully: The aliens went back to their dying home. Only a few were chosen to stay.

Avatar

I stretched to reach the words, but my hands were too small to carry them home.

Anna Jae

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

Ahmed Yassin

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

Yara Shahidi

The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new genre based on a mixing of others. The potential for modern-day muses...

CELLOGIRLS: Identity and Transformation in 2CELLOS Fan Culture

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The Courage to Create

I think journalism anywhere should be based on social justice and impartiality, making contributions to society as well as taking responsibility in society. Whether you are capitalist or socialist or Marxist, journalists should have the same professi...

China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism

I'd forgotten that human minds are easy to shatter as eggshells," Rhysand said, and ran a finger across the base of my throat. I shuddered, my eyes burning. "Look at how delighful she is - look how she's trying not to cry out in terror. It would be q...

A Court of Thorns and Roses

... forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish.

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we...

The Darkest Night

Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to bond between primary parental caregiver(s) and child; a quest for familiarity; an unspoken language and k...

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every author should satisfy it even if he wrote with his prick while asleep. (Puritans will object to the language in that sentence, and...

Finding a Form

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most prec...

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

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Alice in Wonderland

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact...

Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue