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"If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser."

Sloane Crosley 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 Sloane Crosley

  • "You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial."

  • "Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops."

  • "I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory."

  • "The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha."

  • "The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power."

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