*"Home on the Range" by Dr. Brewster M. Higley (1872):
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play, where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day."
*"The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum (1900):
"Oh, I think I'll miss you most of all." - The Scarecrow
"But my heart isn't really in it." - The Tin Man
"I think I'll go home and see Aunt Em." - Dorothy
*"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote (1966):
"A long time ago we used to sit on the porch like other people. Now it's just like this. But I still like to sit here." - Mr. Clutter
*"The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe (1979):
"Man, I wish I could've seen Mercury when he first came around." - Gus Grissom
*"Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen (1937):
"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have given?"