“The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.” ThinkingHomeMovingColorTruth IsLogicSkinsTongue Author:Maya Angelou
“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'” PeopleLooksSaidDifferentSometimesHomeHandsBigsTogetherMovingBlackWhiteColorRaisesMeetingsSouthBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaRainbowDifferent PeoplesRepresentingDifferent Colors Author:Desmond Tutu
“The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.” GivingLooksLittlesArtHomeWaterSilenceColorWallPleasantCommentSnobUndressingYour Wall Book:Confessions of a dilettante Source: Confessions of a dilettante
“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.” FirstsShowsHomeFacesTurnsLanguageGrowsPathJourneySeaColorBaseballThirdsGreenDeeperSpeedFamiliarIslandsFriendlyShoreFoeTheftIndirectHomecomingReefsGuileSkimmingFriendly Faces Book:A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti Source: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
“Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.” CharacterHomeTogetherSidesToo MuchDoorsColorOilExcellentIngredientsConnectingGood And BadStaminaIncomparableVinegarInsufferable Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater