HOME QUOTES III
quotations about home
We can recall what home is like, or rather, what we want home to be like--safe, secure, serene, beautiful. We know that there is a way to get there, if only we can find the right road, if only we can remember where home is, or, rather, was.
LOUISE DESALVO
Crazy in the Kitchen
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
SYDNEY SMITH
letter, Sep. 29, 1843
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.
SARAH DESSEN
What Happened to Goodbye?
Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Dhalgren
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath nowhere to lay his head.
BIBLE
Matthew 8:20
Home! that one spot, wherever situated,
Clothed with grace no other clime may share,
From her bright precincts, by her love created,
Spring fadeless wreaths that later years shall wear;
Around her lowliest paths of daily duty
Gush rippling fountains, from Youth's glistening sands
Flow down the years, and dim with heaven-born beauty,
The glare and glitter of all other lands.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"California's Woodlands"
A man's house is his castle.
EDWARD COKE
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
American Flint
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
JEREMY TAYLOR
Twenty-Seven Sermons
Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Lord Jim
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Titcomb's Letters to Young People
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
The first sense of self as a success or failure develops within the home, regardless of what the home is like. Some homes are like prisons; some are like sanctuaries. Some are like playgrounds or circuses or hospitals or hotels or schools.
MURIEL JAMES
It's Never Too Late to Be Happy
You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
Home is like a shadow,
It will always follow me.
And so it is, after I move,
Home is where I'll be.
NICOLE L. V. JAEGER
My Moving Activity Journal
A home is like a nest--it's only useful for so long.
DAVID LYNCH
Lynch on Lynch
If you know you're going home, the journey is never too hard.
ANGELA WOOD
Judaism for Today
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
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