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"During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school."

Lionel Blue 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 Lionel Blue

  • "My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

  • "To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies."

  • "I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."

  • "I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."

  • "Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life."

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