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“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”

Ifs Children Home Christian Wish Term Christianity Trouble Miracle Our Children Your Children Gracious

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.”

People Facts Home Law Young Wish Issues Brother Accidents Injury In-laws Coverage Brother In Law Fiancee

Author:Gary Lineker

“That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.”

Home Wish Hours Poor Eternity Longing Dialogue Gentle Flux

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.”

Way Want Should Wells Home Suffering Wish Worry Fields Eternity Blessed Trials Arise Desert Heavenly Preoccupation Good God Heavenly Home

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.”

Ifs Way Long Doe Home Wish Safe Delight Wander Temples Temperance

Book:Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

Source: Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

“Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.”

Should Home Wish Acting Lsd Lunacy Acting Out

Author:John Waters

“I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.”

Home Wish Invisible Planes Take Me Brooklyn Subway

Author:Keri Russell

“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”

“If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie, because he just comes in and makes them so comfortable and is so brilliant with them and they all go home and they that they've got this special relationship.”

Ifs Children Home Actors Wish Special Comfortable Brilliant Adam Child Actors Special Relationship

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.”

Men Want Trying Kind Helping Home Kids Hate Wish Enjoy Hero Harder Heroism Hate Me Housework Stay At Home Don't Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.”

Home Evil Wish Chickens Coming Home Roost

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.”

Home Wish Cities Gone New York Clothes Winter New York City Going Home Coldness

Book:Lyrics 1964 - 2011

Source: Lyrics 1964 - 2011

“I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.”

Ifs Men Made Home Wish Faults I Love Him

Book:New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

Source: New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.”

Has Beens Two Home Young Three Wish Justice Cold Folks Weather Providing Sheets Disagreeable Cold Weather Bedfellows

Author:George Mason

“Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.”

Mean Littles Enough Home Wish Trials Granted Uncles Embarrassing Creeps Spirited Anomalies Mean Spirited Grover

Author:Tucker Carlson

“The thought of people in this day and age sitting down to listen to a radio variety show on Saturday evening is rather implausible and was even more so in 1974 when we started “A Prairie Home Companion.” Thank goodness Minnesota Public Radio was too poor to afford good advice or the show never would've got on the air. We only did it because we knew it would be fun to do. It was a dumb idea. I wish I knew how to be that dumb again.”

“Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.”

Home Wish Sea My Friends Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Blank Outcast

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.”

Home Opportunity Given Wish Environment Player Missing Comfortable Flight Mates Exes

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.”

Ifs Knows Feels May Home House Wish Family Members Ill

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?”

Looks Home Mother Desire Wish Like You Offers Crosses Circles Hips Divides Babe Precious Gifts

Author:Erica Jong

“Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.”

Made Home Wish Food Skills Degrees Trade Conviction Bread Superiors Labour Baking Wholesomeness

Book:Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained

Source: Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained