“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.” MayHomeEyeLastsSongSweetWingsTheeHis EyesSweetestSwans Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In these home affairs things I think occasionally it's the duty of politicians on both sides to turn round to the tabloids and right-wing newspapers and say 'you have your facts wrong and you're whipping up facts which are inaccurate” ThinkingFactsHomeTurnsSidesDutyPoliticianWingsRoundsAffairNewspapersBoth SidesRight WingTabloidsWhipping Author:Kenneth Clarke
“The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .” MindHomeLyingForceGrowsSpringWingsRoseWinterSnowBeesSweetnessIcyAbacus Book:Science and Human Values Source: Science and Human Values
“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.” KnowsHas BeensSoulHomeSeemsEyeLeftAmbitionBirdFilledWingsAffectionFlightDeniedDaringAmbitiousAshesRefugeThirstSovereigntyBosomsGrasping Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.” PeopleKindHomeLeftBehindsMusicLettersWingsSouthLeft Behind1930sGospel Music Book:Movin' on Up Source: Movin' on Up