Famous quotes containing the words home and/or center:
“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by the childrens imminent or actual departurefathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husbands distress”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, thats done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.”
—John Donne (15721631)
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