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"I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir."

"I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir."

Lizzie Andrew Borden, American Celebrity

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"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."

"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."

Paddy Ashdown, British Politician

Home, War, Right

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"However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home."

"However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home."

Robert Neelly Bellah, American Sociologist

Home, Children, Parents

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"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

Phyllis Diller, American Comedian

Home, Children, Rest, Will

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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

Layne Staley, American Musician

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"I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops."

"I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops."

Zola Budd, South African Athlete

Home, Love, Cows, Tea

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"My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home."

"My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home."

Tina Turner, American Musician

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"What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home."

"What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home."

Timothy Murphy, American Soldier

Home, Mother, Father, Children

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"It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs."

"It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs."

Roger Maris, American Athlete

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"I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?"

"I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?"

Mort Walker, American Artist

Home, War, Thought, Army

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"Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina."

"Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina."

Ike Skelton, American Politician

Home, Ability, States, Suffering

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"Everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!"

"Everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Home, Belonging, Comfort, Life

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"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."

"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Home, Rain, Thinking, Nostalgia

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"I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home."

"I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home."

Kelly Preston, American Actress

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"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."

"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."

E. Stanley Jones, American Theologian

Home, Christian, Being

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"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

Margaret Thatcher, English Leader

Home, Country, Problems, Running

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"Home is where one starts from."

"Home is where one starts from."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor

Home, Feeling, Homesickness, Man

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"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand."

"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand."

Barbra Streisand, American Actress

Home, People, Driving, Dying

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"We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."

"We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."

Pat Williams, American Athlete

Home, Manager, Play, Road

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"Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that."

"Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Home, Living, London, Now

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"The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years."

"The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years."

Kit Williams, British Author

Home, Pleasure, Years

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"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer."

"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer."

Kent McCord, American Actor

Home, Children, Hollywood, Now

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"He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened."

"He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress

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"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."

"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

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"No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home."

"No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home."

Rosanne Cash, American Musician

Home, Daughter, Children, School

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"My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy."

"My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy."

James Denton, American Actor

Home, Wife, Being, Pretty

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"You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything."

"You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything."

Andy Taylor, British Musician

Home, God, Being, Help

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"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

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"I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now."

"I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now."

David Brainerd, American Clergyman

Home, God, Mercy, Now

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"Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home."

"Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home."

Susan Smith, American Criminal

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"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win."

"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win."

Shelley Long, American Actress

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"The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver."

"The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver."

Sarah Chalke, Canadian Actress

Home, Time, First

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"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."

"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."

F. Murray Abraham, American Actor

Home, Trust, Kids, President

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"I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home."

"I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

Home, Attention, Play

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"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman."

"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman."

Marlene Dietrich, American Actress

Home, Bed, Man, Woman

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"My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked."

"My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked."

Madeleine Stowe, American Actress

Home, Film, Jokes, Race

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"I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home."

"I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home."

Alexandra Paul, American Actress

Home, People, Actor, Television

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"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

Home, Work, Husbeffect

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"General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation."

"General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

Home, People, Spirit

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"There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do."

"There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do."

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

Home, Day, Nothing

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"I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis."

"I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis."

Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier

Home, Crisis, Present, Public

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"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."

"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

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"That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole."

"That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole."

Mick Ralphs, English Musician

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"That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation."

"That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation."

Elias Hicks, American Clergyman

Home, Truth, Day, Desire

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"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."

"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."

Roger Maris, American Athlete

Home, Chance, Preparation

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"Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again."

"Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again."

Peter Sarsgaard, American Actor

Home, Work, Day, Makeup

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"Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run."

"Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run."

Rocco DiSpirito, American Celebrity

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"Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan."

"Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan."

Zach Wamp, American Politician

Home, Men, Time, Women

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"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."

"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

Home, Nature, Court, Play

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