"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

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"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Home, Happiness, Truth, Life

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

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Home, Heaven, Traveling, World

"Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?"

Bill Maher, American Comedian

Home, Restraint, Right, Trade

"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

Home, Love, Feet

"Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious-every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Home, Happiness, Life, Truth, Power

"A home without books is a body without soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Home, Soul, Body, Books

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Truth, Belonging, Acceptance

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

"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

Home, Day, Healing, Public, Shadow

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"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

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"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."

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"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."

Trust

"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."

Now

"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

Perception

"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."

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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

Success