HOME QUOTES
quotations about home
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
HELEN ROWLAND
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth.
HERMANN HESSE
Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
Home is the place, where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
ROBERT FROST
"The Death of a Hired Man"
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there 's no place like home;
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which sought through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE
Home
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
CHARLES DICKENS
Martin Chuzzlewit
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
MARGUERITE DURAS
Practicalities
A home is like a piece of music where all essentials are in harmony. Every mind has its hidden light, and each member of the family brings its radiance to the breakfast table, where the keynote of the day is sounded. It may be a low growl on the bass notes, a shrill falsetto, or a sweet clear sound, but from it the strain of the day largely takes its tone.
MRS. F. M. CARPENTER
"The Country Home", Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Food
A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.
ABBOTT ELIOT KITTREDGE
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
You can go home again ... so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home "owners" deduct mortgage interest payments.
FLORENCE KING
Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.
CESARE PAVESE
The Moon and the Bonfire
A house is a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER
Toward a New Architecture
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Sir Winston Churchill: A Self-Portrait
The class of people who disturb and distress the world are not those who are born and nurtured in happy homes, but those whose home life has been one of continual strife, contention and vituperation which made their life so distorted. It matters not whether the home be a mansion or a cottage if it be permeated with joy, gladness, love and smiles.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
Home is where the heart is.
JOSEPH C. NEAL
Singleton Snippe
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
MAYA ANGELOU
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Some people like their homes, some detest their homes, and still others feel deeply ambivalent. Those who have negative feelings about their homes usually believe something was missing in their homes when they were young and conclude that, as a consequence, something is missing inside of them. Often the missing part is awareness of their livability and their right to be respected. Some struggle for years to fill this void, then give up in despair. Others recognize the problem and decide to design a better home for themselves, one that contributes to success, not failure.
MURIEL JAMES
It's Never Too Late to Be Happy
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
BOB DYLAN
"Like A Rolling Stone"
Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
The Honourable Schoolboy