"Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain, American Author

Home, Cat, Pet, Loyalty

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Where thou art, that is home."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Home is- Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

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"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

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"Home is- Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant."

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"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."

"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."

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"My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward."

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