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.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
~By Red Adair ~
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.
~By Mikhail Kalashnikov ~
I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.
~By Compay Segundo ~
I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
~By Ryan Stiles ~
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
~By Confucius ~
I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.
~By Bill Dickey ~
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
~By Earl Weaver ~
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
~By John Zorn ~
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
~By James Lee Burke ~
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
~By Kenny Chesney ~
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
~By James Gandolfini ~
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
~By Robert Cormier ~
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
~By Pat Robertson ~
Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.
~By Laurel Clark ~
This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.
~By Donald Evans ~
I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.
~By Geoff Davis ~
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
~By Allen Toussaint ~
Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
~By Gordon Sinclair ~
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
~By Linda Lingle ~
I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
~By Joan Jett ~
It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.
~By Eric Stoltz ~
I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
~By Andre Agassi ~
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
~By Cal Thomas ~
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
~By Ogden Nash ~
People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not.
~By Hideo Nomo ~
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
~By Larry Elder ~
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
~By Robert Herrick ~
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
~By Kate Smith ~
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
~By Graham Nelson ~
I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.
~By Tom Jones ~
Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.
~By Jane Asher ~
I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
~By Casey Stengel ~
One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
~By Warren Farrell ~
With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.
~By Jeff Miller ~
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.
~By Paul Martin ~
Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.
~By Matt Cameron ~
It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.
~By Sherman Austin ~
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
~By Charles Peguy ~
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
~By Colin Chapman ~
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
~By Ruby Wax ~
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
~By Craig Claiborne ~
So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.
~By Eric Carr ~
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.
~By William Jerome ~
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.
~By Jerry Kleczka ~
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
~By Mos Def ~
I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.
~By Rene Veaux ~
I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.
~By Howard Coble ~
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.
~By Chief Joseph ~
Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
~By Major R. Owens ~
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
~By Rosa Parks ~
In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
~By Dane Cook ~
That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.
~By Franklin Raines ~
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
~By David Boies ~
We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.
~By Michael Todd ~
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
~By David Soul ~
Home wasn't built in a day.
~By Jane Sherwood Ace ~
These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.
~By Frankie Avalon ~
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
~By Casey Stengel ~
Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.
~By Honor Blackman ~
I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.
~By Bob Odenkirk ~
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
~By Peter Scott ~
I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
~By Merle Haggard ~
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
An' this house just ain't no home, Anytime she goes away.
~By Bill Withers ~
We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.
~By Bradley A. Blakeman ~
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.
~By John Poindexter ~
Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
~By Allan Bloom ~
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
~By Mickey Mantle ~
Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.
~By Sheena Easton ~
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
~By Walter Knott ~
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.
~By Billy Preston ~
And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
~By Betty Hill ~
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
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