Too Close To Home Quotes

But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home — Khaled Hosseini

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. — Missy Elliott

And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose. — Thomas Gray

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home. — Bill Maher

Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there. — Rodney Atkins

Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get. — Josh Gates

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home. — Garth Brooks

Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily. — Robert Graysmith

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty. — Warwick Davis

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. — James Reston

It's to bad we didn't stay longer", I murmur, looking out at the river. "I would have liked to die close to home. — Victoria Aveyard

I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home. — Guy Pearce

Still holding me close, she whispered into my ear, "But you know what, Soph? Italy is my destiny; it calls to me to return home. — Melissa Muldoon

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it. — Jacob Grimm

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you. — Catharine MacKinnon

It's the special things close to home, and the breadth of life, that makes our time on this earth so valuable. — Fennel Hudson

I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good. — John F. Kennedy

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ. — John Piper

My foundation is based on helping children, and I hand-pick projects that are close to my heart and home. — Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home. — Fran Drescher

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work. — Joseph De Maistre

Feeling close and complete with someone else -- the emotional equivalent of finding a home — Amir Levine

Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home. — L. Frank Baum

I took a deep, deep breath and held it in my core; kept it close behind my protruding, fleshless ribs. I swallowed it whole. I was home. — Ava Bloomfield

Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it. — Jonathan Adler

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel. — Suzanne Collins

I think my mom did everything pretty close to perfect, and I want to be the cool mom that the kids run home to. — Miley Cyrus

I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home! — Paula Creamer

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world. — Ron Padgett

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions. — Ronald Reagan

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that. — Dolly Parton

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted. — Norah Jones

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. — Mary Cheney

I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax. — Kathy Reichs

The farther away, the closer the home becomes. — Dejan Stojanovic