"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

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"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Home, Washington, Wrong

"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Comfort, Cats, Mystery

"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Home, Comfort, Location, Life

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Belonging, Truth, Attachment

"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Joy, Kindness, Laughter

"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Home, Comfort, Safety, Belonging

"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire, French Writer

Home, Books, Fire, Property

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Home, Peace

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Home, Heart, Kitchen, Health

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Home, Comfort, Nothing

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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."

Poverty

"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

Home

"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."

Events

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

Time

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

Thought

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

Photography

"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

God

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

Dying

"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."

Travel

"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."

Life