"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."

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"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second 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

"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

Home, Abuse, Children, Crime

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

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

Home, Mother, God, Lady

"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Home, Time

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

Home, Business, Christian, Luxury

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Home, Success, Quality, Comedy

"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

Home, Wife, Cheating, Nothing

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"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions."

Talent, Decisions, Preparation

"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

Skill, American, Soccer

"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me."

Home, Being, Childhood, Principles

"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."

Home, Country, Now, Years

"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."

Attention,

"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."

Basketball, Blood, Obligation

"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"

Man, Men, Leader, Character, America

"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."

Car,

"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."

People, Values, Basketball, Culture