Best home & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.”

Way Needs Humans Said Soul Home Eye Earth Voice Rooms Right Now Empty Thanks Dawn Extras Helpful Gates Strain Hints

Author:Kiersten White

“Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.”

Home Would Be Eye Stars Feet Sky Flight Aviation Airplane Great Aviation

Author:Jerrie Cobb

“Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.”

May Home Eye Lasts Song Sweet Wings Thee His Eyes Sweetest Swans

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.”

Thinking Men Feels May Children Home Eye Parent Wife Bravery Ashamed Scorn Absent Be A Man

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.”

Looks Real Home Eye Chance Europe Hunger Glad Ashamed Leaving Me Away From Home Never Leave Me

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.”

Soul Home Eye Focus

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.”

Want Home Eye Wanted Together Fantasy Heard Husband Singing Jokes Garden Opposites Affair Dinner Enjoyed Sat His Eyes My Husband Laughed Polite Adultery Courteous

Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.”

Home Eye Games Doors Spring Hateful Creditors

Author:Thomas Otway

“So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.”

Home Eye Sleep Knives Closest Dimes Chipping Away

Author:Mariah Carey

“The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.”

Ifs Home Eye Ears Corners Unicorn Around The Corner Sonatas True Home

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”

God Home Eye Remember Rights Winter Humble Snow Hills Village Afghanistan Almighty Savages Sanctity Almighty God Sanctity Of Life Winter Snow

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.”

Ifs Thinking Character Feelings Home Eye Individual Virtue Land Intellectual Connections Connected Arise Locals Perceive Native Attachment Native Land Birthplace Topography Birth Place

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“A soulmate is someone you can completely be yourself with. Someone with whom you share unconditional love and when you look into each other's eyes, you know that you are home.”

Knows Looks Home Eye Share Being Yourself Unconditional Love Soulmate Unconditional

Author:Arielle Ford

“The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.”

Needs Mind Firsts Home Eye Lasts Saws Sight Blind Trade Fortune Rate Seeking Mechanic Stay At Home Coquette

Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

“It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.”

Children Important Sometimes Home Eye Sin Important Things Remedy

Book:Mrs. Miniver

Source: Mrs. Miniver

“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”

Home Hands Eye Justice Honor Gold Shining Righteous Mansions

Author:Aeschylus

“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”

Feels Trying Home Eye Lasts Figures Objects Building Please Comfortable Adults Filling Acquiring Things Building A Home

Author:Lauren Bacall

“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Knows Doe Home Eye Earth Fighting Animal Existence Expression Capable Size His Eyes Courageous Suspects Conventions Suspicion Peasants Bourgeois Defenders Gallant Family Home

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.”

World Years Looks Home Eye Half Comfortable Other Half Nigeria

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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