Homeplace Quotes & Sayings

We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up ... Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment. — Louise J. Kaplan

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. — James Monroe

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts. — Allan Lokos

Of course she'll move away from me, and likely from here, because she is my daughter, because she is a daughter in the twenty-first century. But we can be her fall-back plan, and her stash of memories. Her deep and wide past. — Liz Stephens

All 'people of one blood' who made homeplace in isolated landscapes where they could invent themselves, where they could savor a taste of freedom. — Bell Hooks

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things. — Lois Lowry

I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane. — Chris Kyle

Hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind — Lois Lowry

It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance. — Bell Hooks