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" Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down. "

Peter Marino

Last

Down

" Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application. "

Jack White

Home

Coming Home

" For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. "

" I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Story

Years

" Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me. "

Pawel Pawlikowski

Home

People

" The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing. "

Jim DeMint

" The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. "

" If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. "

" I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped. "

" I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom. "

" That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making. "

" There's no place like home. And I do miss my home. "

Malala Yousafzai

Place

Miss

" Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. "

" Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home. "

" It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work. "

" Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community. "

" If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it. "

" As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood. "

" I'm a real Suzy Homemaker. "

" My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot. "

" We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. "

" Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward. "

" I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant. "

" Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. "

" I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest. "

" It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this. "

" Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. "

" When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space. "

Stacy Keibler

Comfortable

Space

" All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. "

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