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" I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. "

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" I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning. "

Nate Berkus

Care

Believe

Story

" Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you. You need a lot of self-discipline, but luckily, I have it. "

" Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches. "

" Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. "

George Bernard Shaw

Home

Natural

" My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. "

" Home is the place we love best and grumble the most. "

" If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. "

" This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news. "

" Toronto is home; nothing beats home. "

" Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. "

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Home

Heaven

Beginners

" I know when I left the game, I could have played more. There is no question. I think I could have played at a very high level, too. But I could not play the way everyone wanted me to play. And I was not willing to compromise what I felt was a standard that I had established in this league and, particularly, for our fans at home. "

Jerry West

Think

Play

" Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. "

" The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home. "

" There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air. "

" Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. "

" Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. "

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball

Driving

" Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity. "

" Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person. "

" A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be. "

" A home without books is a body without soul. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books

Without

Body

" Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. "

Malcolm X

Home

Sad

" Most parents would not hesitate to assume responsibility for their child's behavior on a playground, at school, or in someone else's home. What happens online should be no different. Parents should talk with their children about computer ethics, stipulate rules of conduct, and - most importantly - establish consequences. "

" A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals. "

" The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV. "

Kim Kardashian

Perfect

Bed

" In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket. "

" Home is where the heart is. "

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

" If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling. "

" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

" Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies. "