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"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."

Ella Maillart on Home

More quotes about Home

  • "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

    Margaret Thatcher on Home

  • "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

    Benjamin Franklin on Home

  • "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

    Oliver Wendell Holmes on Home

  • "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

    Bill Cosby on Home

  • "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

    Robert Frost on Home

More quotes by Ella Maillart

  • "The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."

  • "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."

  • "I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."

  • "Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

  • "You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."

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