"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

Home, Mother, Night, Play

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"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Home, Heaven, Traveling, World

"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

George Eliot, British Author

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"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

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"I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home."

Earl Long, American Politician

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"One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family."

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"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room."

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"Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper."

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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"

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