Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
- Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
- The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
- The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
- The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.