Michael Palin Quotes

I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

Prayers offered in times of peace are silent conversations, Appeals for love, or love's release, in private invocations But all that is changed now. Gone like a memory from the day before the fires. People hungry for the voice of God Hear lunatics and liars. Wartime prayers. Wartime prayers In every language spoken. For every family scattered and broken.

Houses of worship can be the heart of a community. They can be the cradle of a family. They can be places where our children go to learn, not just faith, but to make friends. They build connections. They are essential to a healthy America. And every community deserves the right to have those houses of worship operate in safety and peace.

I love coming home.