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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
L. FRANK BAUM, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.
ANGELINA JOLIE, BBC News interview, Apr. 8, 2004
Home is the place, where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
ROBERT FROST, "The Death of a Hired Man"
- Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
- I keep it staying at home,
- With a bobolink for a chorister,
- And an orchard for a dome.
EMILY DICKINSON, Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
- Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
- His first, best country ever is, at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Traveller
I feel like I've never had a home. You know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in. And the same thing applies to the theater. I don't know exactly how well I fit into the scheme of things. Maybe that's good, you know, that I'm not in a niche. But there's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I've found that what's most valuable about that place is not the place itself but the other people; that through other people you can find a recognition of each other. I think that's where the real home is.
SAM SHEPARD, Don Shewey's Sam Shepard
- I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
- Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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