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From the suburbs to the Sahara, everyone has a strong tie to their home. Click on any home quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"124 was spiteful."

Source: Beloved | Author: Toni Morrison

"And I think it's gonna be a long long time..."

Source: "Rocket Man" | Speaker: Elton John

"And in the morning...I'm making waffles!"

Source: Shrek | Speaker: Donkey

"And it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet.""

Source: Love Story | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""

Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George

"Baby, you're the greatest."

Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"

Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott

"Cut it out."

Source: Full House | Speaker: Joey Gladstone

"E.T. phone home."

Source: E.T. | Speaker: E.T.

"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."

Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Zuzu Bailey

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

"Get out of my chair, Meathead."

Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker

"Go home, Roger"

Source: Sister Sister | Speaker: Tia and Tamera

"Goodnight, John Boy."

Source: The Waltons | Speaker: The Waltons

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Source: Anna Karenina | Author: Leo Tolstoy

"He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly."

Source: Proverbs 13:24 | Speaker: Narrator

"Here's Johnny!"

Source: The Shining | Speaker: Jack Torrance

"Hey, HEY, hey!"

Source: What's Happening!! | Speaker: Dwayne Nelson

"Hi-di-ho, neighbor!"

Source: Home Improvement | Speaker: Wilson W. Wilson, Jr.

"Holy crap!"

Source: Everybody Loves Raymond | Speaker: Frank Barone

"I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."

Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I do my best to love everybody"

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland)

"I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?"

Source: Meet the Parents | Speaker: Jack Byrnes

"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."

Source: Raising Arizona | Speaker: H.I. McDunnough

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Don Corleone

"If the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death."

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire | Author: John Irving

"If you're a prince, there's hope for every ape in Africa."

Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Prince Geoffrey

"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."

Source: Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."

Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It's a nice day for a white wedding."

Source: White Wedding (Part 1) | Speaker: Billy Idol

"Keep the change, ya filthy animal."

Source: Home Alone | Speaker: Kevin McCallister

"Ladies and gentlemen…The Beatles!"

Source: The Ed Sullivan Show | Speaker: Ed Sullivan

"Let's go home, Debbie."

Source: The Searchers | Speaker: Ethan Edwards

"Like a rolling stone."

Source: Like a Rolling Stone | Speaker: Bob Dylan

"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"

Source: The Brady Bunch | Speaker: Jan Brady

"My biological clock is ticking like this."

Source: My Cousin Vinny | Speaker: Mona Lisa Vito

"No wire hangers!"

Source: Mommie Dearest | Speaker: Joan Crawford

"O Solomon don’t leave me here..."

Source: Song of Solomon | Author: Toni Morrison

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo"

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Author: James Joyce

"Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."

Source: Mildred Pierce | Speaker: Ida Corwin

"POW, right in the kisser!"

Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

Source: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | Author: Dylan Thomas

"Snap out of it!"

Source: Moonstruck | Speaker: Loretta Castorini

"Stifle."

Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker

"Sweet home Alabama"

Source: "Sweet Home Alabama" | Speaker: Lynyrd Skynyrd

"The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."

Source: On Golden Pond | Speaker: Ethel Thayer

"The richest man in town."

Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Harry Bailey

"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one"

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee

"There's no place like home."

Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy

"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God | Author: Zora Neale Hurston

"This is no dream! This is really happening!"

Source: Rosemary's Baby | Speaker: Rosemary Woodhouse

"This is the people's war!"

Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar

"This place is like somebody's memory of a town."

Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Source: Ulysses | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Tomorrow is another day."

Source: Gone with the Wind | Speaker: Margaret Mitchell

"We all go a little mad sometimes."

Source: Psycho | Speaker: Norman Bates

"We could live offa the fatta the lan'."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"We're not in Kansas anymore."

Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy

"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"

Source: Diff'rent Strokes | Speaker: Arnold Jackson

"Whenever, wherever"

Source: "Whenever, Wherever" | Speaker: Shakira

"You rang?"

Source: The Addams Family | Speaker: Lurch

"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."

Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May