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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
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.
ANGELINA JOLIE, BBC News interview, Apr. 8, 2004
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"
- Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
- I keep it staying at home,
- With a bobolink for a chorister,
- And an orchard for a dome.
EMILY DICKINSON, Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
- Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
- His first, best country ever is, at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Traveller
I feel like I've never had a home. You know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in. And the same thing applies to the theater. I don't know exactly how well I fit into the scheme of things. Maybe that's good, you know, that I'm not in a niche. But there's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I've found that what's most valuable about that place is not the place itself but the other people; that through other people you can find a recognition of each other. I think that's where the real home is.
SAM SHEPARD, Don Shewey's Sam Shepard
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.
MAEVE BRENNAN, The Visitor
It is easy to listen to far off echoes unmoved, and we can treat them with disbelief, or scorn, or disdain, or whatever attitude of coldness may suit our purpose. But when the scandal came close home it was another matter; and the feelings of independence and integrity which is in people of every community which is not utterly spoiled, asserted itself and demanded that condemnation should be expressed.
BRAM STOKER, "The Secret of the Growing Gold"
- I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
- Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
- Shod with wings is the horse of him who rides
- On a Spring day the road that leads to home.
BAI JUYI, "After Passing the Examination"
- Though the fire of the heart may have withered its core
- Unto ashes and dust--though the head have turned hoar
- Ere its time, as the surfs o'er the breakers that foam--
- Still, a tear will arise when we think upon Home.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
JEREMY TAYLOR, Twenty-Seven Sermons
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakeable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbours, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habbit of the blood. At five years old, mortals are not prepared to be citizens of the world, to be stimulated by abstract nouns, to soar above preference into impartiality; and that prejudice in favour of milk with which we blindly begin, is a type of the way body and soul must get nourished at least for a time. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
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