Home Quotes

I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

Of all modern notions the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home they say is dead decorum and routine outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

G.K. Chesterton

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

Max Beerbohm

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Kin Hubbard

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Caleb Colton

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Alexander Chase

I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Jerome K. Jerome

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Christian Morgenstern

Where thou art that is Home.

Emily Dickinson

Home is the place where when you have to go there They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.

Lydia Sigourney

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.

Walter Cronkite

The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

Edward Coke

The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.

Matthew

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

Home is where the heart is.

Pliny

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf

For a man's home is his castle.

Sir Edward Coke

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

George Norman Douglas

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

Goethe

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Anonymous

Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past And each heart is whispering "Home Home at last!"

Thomas Hood

A house without security cannot be a home!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I had a dream, which seemed so real,I was King of the world, so full of appeal,Upon waking I found I wasn't alone,In a kingdom called Home, sitting on a throne.

Omar Kiam

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore… All of the sudden, even though you have some place to put your shit, that idea of home is gone… Or maybe it's like this rite of passage… You will never have that feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start. It’s like a cycle or something. Maybe that’s all family really is: a group of people that miss the same imaginary place.

Zach Braff

At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not answering.

Frances Mayes

It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came.""I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood."Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it.

Clifford D. Simak

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.

Aleksandr Voinov

Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.

Kaya McLaren

That was our first home. Before I felt like an island in an ocean, before Calcutta, before everything that followed. You know it wasn’t a home at first but just a shell. Nothing ostentatious but just a rented two-room affair, an unneeded corridor that ran alongside them, second hand cane furniture, cheap crockery, two leaking faucets, a dysfunctional doorbell, and a flight of stairs that led to, but ended just before the roof (one of the many idiosyncrasies of the house), secured by a sixteen garrison lock, and a balcony into which a mango tree’s branch had strayed. The house was in a building at least a hundred years old and looked out on a street and a tenement block across it. The colony, if you were to call it a colony, had no name. The house itself was seedy, decrepit, as though a safe-keeper of secrets and scandals. It had many entries and exits and it was possible to get lost in it. And in a particularly inspired stroke of whimsy architectural genius, it was almost invisible from the main road like H.G. Wells’ ‘Magic Shop’. As a result, we had great difficulty when we had to explain our address to people back home. It went somewhat like this, ‘... take the second one from the main road….and then right after turning left from Dhakeshwari, you will see a bird shop (unspecific like that, for it had no name either)… walk straight in and take the stairs at the end to go to the first floor, that’s where we dwell… but don’t press the bell, knock… and don't walk too close to the cages unless you want bird-hickeys…’’('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Lynda Barry

There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept under a camel-skin rug and elevators are going to be built over the lake we once swam in. This address, as we know it, would be lost forever and we’ll wake up in a box-sized room: cramped, trampled and sensationally unhappy.'('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.

Alex Ebert

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

Janet Fitch

There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.

Richard Proenneke

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

Veronica Roth

I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.

Nicholas Sparks

Darling," he said distractedly,"about the moon...""Yes?""I don't think it matters whether you want it or not.""What are you talking about?" "The moon. I think it's yours."Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. "Fine. i'm glad to have it.""But--" Robert shook his head. He was growing fanciful. the moon didn't belong to his wife. It didn't follow her, protect her. It certainly didn't wink at anybody.But he stared out the window the rest of the way home, just in case

Julia Quinn

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Places are supposed to look smaller when you go back to them, but my road just looked schizoid. A couple of the houses had had nifty little makeovers involving double glazing and amusing faux-antique pastel paint; most of them hadn't. Number 16 looked like it was on its last legs: the roof was in tatters, there was a pile of bricks and a dead wheelbarrow by the front steps, and at some point in the last twenty years someone had set the door on fire. In Number 8, a window on the first floor was lit up, gold and cozy and dangerous as hell.

Tana French

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Jeanette Winterson

Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.

Martin Buxbaum

Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd settled like a bird.

Louise Erdrich

HereYou always belonged here.You were theirs, certain as a rock.I’m the one who worriesif I fit in with the furniture and the landscape.tBut I “follow too muchthe devices and desires of my own heart.”Already the curves in the roadare familiar to me, and the mountainin all kinds of light, treating all people the same.and when I come over the hill, I see the house, with its generous and firm proportions, smokerising gaily from the chimney.I feel my life start up again, like a cutting when it growsthe first pale and tentativeroot hair in a glass of water.

Jane Kenyon

It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

Joanna Russ

For home had a way of shifting, of changing shape and temperature. Home was homeless. It could exist anywhere, because its only substance was familiarity. If it was broken by long journeys or tornadoes it emerged again, reinvented itself with new decor, new idiosyncrasies of morning, noon and dusk, and old routines.

Diana Evans

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

A.W. Tozer

The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!

William Arthur Sirmon

Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.

Dorien Kelly

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

T.M. Williams

He's pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to beI rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, body wash, and my favourite smell - Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul

E.L. James

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

Terry Pratchett

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.

Thomas Wolfe

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