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Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah -- H. L. Mencken
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home. -- Rick Scott
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. -- Sam Ewing
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife. -- John Burnside
I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia. -- Francine Prose
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. -- Amartya Sen
What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I? -- Alice Englert
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. -- Dolly Parton
Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was. -- Susan Estrich
In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance. -- Lady Gregory
At home I drive an old Land Rover. -- Richard Hammond
I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home. -- Eve Best
I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home -- Doc Watson
I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home. -- Doc Watson
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me. -- William Jerome
Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me? -- Arabella Weir
Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. -- Brian Rathbone
I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it. -- Dick Van Patten
I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup. -- Tom Brokaw
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. -- Maxine Kumin
You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home. -- Marie Lloyd
I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there. -- Martina McBride
Every believer departing this old earth ...immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home by Jesus himself. -- Paul P. Enns
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. -- Joseph Conrad
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home. -- Michael Caine
Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school. -- LeBron James
I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home. -- Valerie Bertinelli
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. -- Margaret Mead
I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home. -- Barry Goldwater
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. -- Thomas Carlyle
Old people go to the polls because they can't get erections, young people stay home, do drugs and have sex. -- Moby
Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state -- Robert E. Lee
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. -- Kevin Spacey
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. -- Kevin Spacey
Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home. -- Reid Scott
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker? -- Rudyard Kipling
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. -- Malcolm X
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On -- Tom Waits
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. -- Alan Alda
If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. -- Mary Howitt
I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology. -- Kerry Bishe
33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. -- Jarod Kintz
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. -- Lin Yutang
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. -- Sophie Kinsella
I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home. -- Daisy Ridley
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage. -- Becky G
General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. -- Mark Steyn
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
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs. -- Burton Cummings
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel. -- Lorene Scafaria
I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors. -- Garry Marshall
The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife. -- John Burnside
I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out. -- Buddy Rice
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison. -- Thomas A. Edison
All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die. -- Helene Hanff
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' -- Michael Gove
A reverse mortgage is available to anyone who is at least 62 years old and owns a home outright, or has a small mortgage balance remaining. -- Suze Orman
I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. -- Nolan Bushnell
I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it. -- Damian Lewis
Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on! -- Louis C. K.
For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home. -- Jean Chretien
In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home. -- Jennifer Crusie
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me........ -- Suzanne Collins
If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society. -- Myron Scholes
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot. -- Sam Snead
I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well. -- Thomas Kinkade
If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society. -- Myron Scholes
When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau]. -- Brent Spiner
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. -- Cameron Diaz
My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. -- Johnny Cash
The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues. -- Francois Arnaud
I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs. -- Ryan Braun
There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records. -- Syd Barrett
Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward's. I touched the cool miracle of his skin, and I was home. -- Stephenie Meyer
I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies. -- Dylan Moran
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home. -- Bruce Chatwin
I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one. -- Lefty Gomez
I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle. -- Tracy Morgan

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