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“I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.”

Moments Home Wife Source Quiet My Wife Cherish Back Home Finding Happiness Quiet Moments Happy Moments Nova Scotia Novas

Author:Peter MacKay

“I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.”

Home Quiet Music Is Peace And Quiet

Author:Elaine Paige

“Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.”

World Home Girl Boys Influence Exercise Quiet Direct Temptation Sexism Buffets Few Friends

Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell

“Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'”

Ifs Home Quiet Letters Suicide Determined Commit Nervous Why Not Coming Home Depressing Nevertheless Trifles

Author:Annie Smith Peck

“Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.”

May Home Earth Poverty Quiet Dignity Skins Unconscious Worn

Author:Bessie Head

“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.”

World Book Helping Feelings Home Language Forget Fate Quiet Profession Pursuit Impression Merit Occupation Prey Confined Forget You Exertion

Author:Jane Austen

“Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.”

Book Home Quiet Fellows Evening Lazy Good Book Raiding

Author:Dorothy Parker

“We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.”

“Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.”

Home Found Hurt Family Comfort Quiet Away From Home

Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut

“For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.”

Ifs Want Home Lost Simple White Quiet Married Hats Afternoon Ceremony Being Married Magistrates Chapel Satin Second Marriage

Book:No Nice Girl Swears

Source: No Nice Girl Swears

“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”