"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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"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

"I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home."

Michael Zaslow, American Actor

Home, Feelings, Negative, Hurt

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Home, Work, Mother, Being

"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."

Al Franken, American Comedian

Home, Politics, Network, Senate

"I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

Home, Time, Games

"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

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Home, Artist, Europe, Paris

"Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior."

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, American Author

Home, Behavior, Being, Limits

"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."

Esther Williams, American Actress

Home, Time, Eyes, Light

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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

"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."

Being

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

Voice

"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

"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

Nature

"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

Experience

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

Death

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."

Life

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

Autobiography

"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