“if you tell her she can come home just because she’s lonesome, then how is she going to grow up to be a strong individual, to stand on her own two feet as you know she will have to in this life? If you let her come home, how is she ever going to understand that she has to commit herself to fulfilling the responsibilities she’s taken on? She needs to grow up.”
Source: Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
“She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries.”
Source: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
“Home
has always been
whichever place
I do the least
pretending”
Source: Poems from the Attic
“After a few hours everyone else wanted to go home but, I said, in my 3-year-old voice, “No. I want to stay and watch the mountains.” And I did. They left, and I walked home alone. Even at that early age, I had a deep affinity for mountains and a very strong independent nature.”
Source: Why We Climb: The World's Most Inspiring Climbers
“I was so touched by her—all alone out there in Oklahoma, so far from home and everything she knew. When you meet someone really special, you know it right away, as I did with Simone.”
Source: Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
“But to remain too long, rooted in one place, even one place so beautiful, that was not the Imuhar way – for a man who wanders is free. His home is the desert: the sky, the stars. He is not tethered, neither to place nor possessions, only to the desert sands – that is home and that is what he carries in his heart.” – Lenny by Laura McVeigh”
“But to remain too long, rooted in one place, even one place so beautiful, that was not the Imuhar way – for a man who wanders is free. His home is the desert: the sky, the stars. He is not tethered, neither to place nor possessions, only to the desert sands – that is home and that is what he carries in his heart.”
“She loved the islands. They'd always been home. But they weren't all. There was so much more world out there, just begging to be seen. Explored. Discovered.”
Source: To Treasure an Heiress
“And it occurred to me by the time I was a teenager that I had become part of the land, every bit as much a part of it as sparrow eggs or thrasher nest, garter snake or oak tree, and that the rest of my life, or anyone's life, would be a gradual learning process, a journey toward fitting into one's home, for those of us lucky enough to still recognize what is home...that which we are a part of, rather than estranged from. And rather than using the word "lucky," perhaps I should use the word grace.”
Source: The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West
“The kitchen is traditionally the heart of the home.”