"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

Home, Religion, Food, People

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"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

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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

Explore more quotes by James A. Michener

"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."

Courage

"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."

Confidence

"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."

Man

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."

Experience

"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."

Man

"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."

Dream

"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."

Career

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."

Discipline

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

Character

"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."

Creativity