Quotes of: Home-town Keyword

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the c...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, bu...

Moby

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

W. G. Sebald

THE ONE WHO STAYED You should have heard the old men cry, You should have heard the biddies When that sad stranger raised his flute And piped away the kiddies. Katy, Tommy, Meg and Bob Followed, skipped gaily, Red-haired Ruth, my brother Rob, And lit...

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

Jose Canseco

There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the eyes of women and men in every town, maybe he scratches the earth or wields a gun, remedies illnesses or writes books, and there is always...

The House Girl

I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest ...

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

Away from home they look at your clothes. At home they look at what is under them.

Chinese

The brave person regards dying as just going home.

Chinese

When we are at our happiest, then it is best to leave and go home.

Czech

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

Charlie Watts

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.

Andrew Rannells

Don’t try this at home. Do this at home, or do this at home not, there is no try.

John Alejandro King

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

I still don't get it" Coach Hedge muttered as they roamed the centre aisle. "They named a whole town after Leo's table?" "I think the town was here first, Coach" Nico said.

The Blood of Olympus

Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes—not unlike you—not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don’t tend to know it.

Small Town Demons

Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.

Small Town Demons

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

Small Town Demons

There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.

Salem's Lot

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America