I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
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Related I want to come home. I'll come and I'll sleep on my porch. This is where I spent all my life. I am b... GLORIA IRVING Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ... AUDREY HEPBURN Though I grew up in Los Angeles, Chennai is my home now. I like playing for my country. PRAKASH AMRITRAJ This is the strangest life I have ever known. JIM MORRISON I keep looking for him to come home. I?m waiting for him to come back in here. HELEN ANDERSON It isn't very easy for me to even tell myself what the motivation was to come here. I went into this... LT RICHARD VAN DE GEER I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life SOPHOCLES I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second ho... HAKEEM OLAJUWON I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my w... CARL HIAASEN This is the weirdest but most rewarding trip I've ever taken. At first, I said there was no way I wa... PHILIP JONES I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences hav... SANIA MIRZA I didn't honestly think that I would have three touchdowns this entire season, much less in one game... GREG CARR I'm so happy that this day has come and that the government will release me. I knew in my heart all ... AHILAN NADARAJAH When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun... WINSTON CHURCHILL When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own coun... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own coun... WINSTON CHURCHILL When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I can't complain about being here, ... We have been in the playoff hunt the last four years. I like ... KYLE LOHSE I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done h... DAVID OGILVY I might not ever come here again. So I ask you with my heart and soul . . . I want to see this massa... BRIGITTE BARDOT I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did ... WILLIAM GIBSON This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. WILLIAM GOLDMAN for those who come so far. Some call this island the World's End, for though you can sail further, t... C.S. LEWIS I won the gold all because of experience. It is for my country. I am indebted to people who have pra... KUNJARANI DEVI George is a great combination of science and soul, I've never forgotten where I come from. This is m... STANLEY CLARKE I'm disappointed because I thought it would have come here. This is the home of NASCAR. I'm a NASCAR... JOE SNYDER The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country'... WAEL GHONIM I only have one wish in life... For all my dreams to come true. ANONYMOUS a grim-faced Henry said. ''I didn't feel it was appropriate for him to come here and defend himself ... LARRY LUCCHINO I had my doubts there after we were up and let them come back. I give them credit though, they playe... TRACY NELSON Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would ... CAITLYN JENNER you weren't mine to begin with. IAIN S. THOMAS I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with... ACE FREHLEY I knew this was my last home game so I knew I would have to be a leader tonight. ANTHONY ROSS If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. ... KARL MALONE We've got somewhere around 2,500 housing starts in this community - which is phenomenal. This is gro... LACY KING I like this park. I don't like that it has a first-base dugout, though, cause I have to run further ... ADAM DUNN All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked... BRENNA YOVANOFF My opinions have definitely changed. I am so glad my husband is no longer there, and I wish all the ... CINDY MURPHY I know how angry I was when I saw those towers come down, and this is my way of serving my country. TOBY KEITH I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people... BRUCE OLDFIELD I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects... KATE DEL CASTILLO I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from ... AZRA T. The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, the... CHRISTOPHER GIST I want to get back here again real bad. I worked so hard this year to get here, but I will work even... CALEB SIMONS I knew I needed to step up. We didn't come out as strong as we have been, and I didn't think we were... ERICA FARINA And why would it? Ellie lied to me, because she knew I would come home to be with her. She selflessl... HEATHER LEIGH I've loved soccer all my life. I've seen many leagues in Houston, and now I get to come home and see... JUAN FLORES Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, a... C.S. LEWIS Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. DAV PILKEY It's not about you, okay? This time, it's about me. Not you. All my life, Lissa... all my life, it's... RICHELLE MEAD The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say... LANCE HENRIKSEN To have seen the country's and been the places i have been to i always took it for granted.Now i rea... GARY F EVANS... All of the animals in here belong to someone, so I don't know where that cat could have come from. LESTER PERSON I have a vase with the first scoop of dirt under my desk. This is a dream come true for me and I kno... DR. CUBIE WARD My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visu... PETE BURNS My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet... ALEXANDER O'NEAL I have come in and my board's been erased. BELINDA STONE After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, h... LILLY SINGH He looked into her eyes and said "When everything falls apart, and the day my soul refuses to move a... AKSHAY VASU I feel good. The last three or four days have been positive. For me, to come in here everyday, I jus... RICK ANKIEL For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b... BILLY CORGAN I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my... KAMILA SHAMSIE She ran her hand over his cock and said, "This is the only thing I ever want to come between us." TERRY SPEAR I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my great... STEVE MARABOLI I said I knew it. I told them that I knew that it would come today, and I knew that it would come th... MIKE ESPY I know this is the greatest moment in my baseball career. We're world champions now. This is a dream... JOHNNY DAMON Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my... TAYLOR SWIFT I come from this bubble in life - I come from a great family and went to a nice school, and I have f... WILL POULTER I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life. MIGUEL It just melts my heart to have that, especially since our stadium is named after him. I have people ... BUD SUEPPEL When I was little, I was out riding my brand-new blue bicycle when I decided to see how far I could ... CHICA UMINO I've done all my schooling at Chennai - it's always home for me. All my growing up years hav... DULQUER SALMAAN When we went to Minnesota, I had 15 people I've never met before in my life come up to me and ask, '... DAN JACOBS Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; tha... LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close... IMTIAZ ALI For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that th... ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK It's so hard to have them see me this way, ... I have been honest with my daughter. She knows I have... ANGELA HUNT Every time I come back here, I see progress, ... . . . This part of the country is changing. You're ... A. BUSH If it hadn't been for Congress looking at this issue, seriously concerned about it, there would not ... HENRY A. WAXMAN My job here is to open the gateway, I guess, for more competition to come in [on the PGA Tour], ... ... K.J. CHOI I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come ... GROUCHO MARX The scary thing is I've actually thought about this over the years and I really can't come up with a... GREG GATTUSO Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go ... MEGAN DERR In the last week, we have learned that since the 7th of July two further terrorist plots have been p... TONY BLAIR I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to ... BILLY GIBBONS Feeling happy and blessed with my life right now. I know I have a purpose. Trials will surely come, ... FE MORALLOS I've come to the point in my life where less is more. The minute the last hammer fell on the last na... ELAINE STRITCH It's not about you, okay ? This time, it's about me. Not you. All my life, Lissa ... All my life, it... RICHELLE MEAD I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So wh... TAWNI O'DELL I deserve to be here. This land is our forefather's land. I am happy to be back, because this is whe... JOSEPH MAKHADI And tonight I'm feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when ... SIMPLE PLAN I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with ... NEIL SIMON I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenev... BILLY CONNOLLY We're expecting at least 160 people this year. This is a life-changing experience for them ... some ... KATHY HOY I know I'm an insurance policy. I've been that for the last six or seven years. This has been a drea... AARON SMALL Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone. ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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LEWIS Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ... C.S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. LEWIS The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. LEWIS I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o... C.S. LEWIS There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he... C.S. LEWIS A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d... C.S. LEWIS They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, i... C.S. LEWIS Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,... C.S. LEWIS Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ... C.S. LEWIS The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa... C.S. LEWIS Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ... C.S. LEWIS Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av... C.S. LEWIS We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and... C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t... C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am... C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi... C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire. C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh... C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w... C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of... C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ... C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th... C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind... C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ... C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov... C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus... C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y... C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t... C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give... C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he... C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m... C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that... C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan... C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are... C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos... C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu... C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis... C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ... C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither. C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ... C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib... C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t... C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b... C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre... C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic... C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ... C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric... C.S. LEWIS We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walk... C.S. LEWIS