"I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values."

Home, Values, World

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values."

Exlpore more Home quotes

"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

"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

"My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly."

Erika Slezak, American Actress

Home, Work, Husband, Kids

Explore more quotes by Georg Brandes

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."

Strength

"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."

Seasons

"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."

Observation

"The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them."

War

"I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry."

Birth

"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."

Family

"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."

Appearance

"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

Attention

"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."

Friendship

"Being gifted needs courage."

Courage