"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."

Home, Rain, Thinking, Nostalgia

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"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."

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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Home, Death, Night, Will

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Home, Travel, Comfort, Nostalgia

"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Change, Escape, Stability

"You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that."

Wink Martindale, American Entertainer

Home, Love, Work, Thought

"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."

Milton R. Sapirstein, American Psychiatrist

Home, Education, Neurosis

"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Home,

"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

Robert Vaughn, American Actor

Home, Politicians

"When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage."

Nomar Garciaparra, American Athlete

Home, Mother

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

Jane D. Hull, American Politician

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"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

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Explore more quotes by William Faulkner

"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."

Wisdom

"She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it."

Longing

"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."

Creativity

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

Time

"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."

Discipline

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."

Activism

"Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice."

Courage

"I will never lie again."

Truth

"Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."

Psychology

"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."

Society