"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."

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"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's 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

Explore more quotes by William Temple

"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."

Humor

"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."

Enthusiasm

"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."

Time

"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."

Beauty

"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."

Wisdom

"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."

Books

"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

Life

"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."

Humor

"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."

Man

"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."

Books