"I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home."

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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your 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."

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

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Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist

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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."

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