quotations about home
What's a home without people? Just a big house with a dog in it.
JOHN RAPPAPORT & LARRY GELBART
"Oh, How We Danced", M*A*S*H
Parents! do not send your sons and daughters from home. Do not destroy the love for your fireside, and the objects about home. Let their eyes rest upon the same furniture, and the same prospects; let their slumbers be, where they slept when very young. There are valuable associations there. Keep them under the shadow of your wings. They were given to you; who can watch over them like you?
WILSON CONWORTH
The Knickerbocker, Feb. 1837
Home is where you hang your architect.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
"Fast and Luce", Vanity Fair, March 1988
It's a funny thing about coming home--looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You realize what's changed is you.
ERIC ROTH
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
For too many people, coming home is like arriving at a second job. With all the chores to do, bills to pay, mail to answer, e-mail to answer, and the rest, home can seem more like a pit stop than a sanctuary.
VICTORIA MORAN
Creating a Charmed Life
Good food and a warm kitchen are what make a house a home.
RACHAEL RAY
Good Housekeeping, Jul. 2010
Home is the reflex of the combined thoughts of parents. The Scriptures say: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," and it might truly be said, as the parents think, so will the children be impressed, for the child is much more susceptible to impression than one of mature years.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
Awfully glad to be home
My heart suddenly mends again
Among my neighbors and friends again
As I start tying loose ends again
IRVING BERLIN
"Glad to be Home"
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
attributed, Sam Shepard
There is no doubt that the home is an ideal place when the conditions are right. But how often do we find the conditions right? Very seldom. As a matter of fact the home is one of the most complicated institutions in the world.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Home", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
If joy, kindness, consideration, happiness, service should radiate from every one in the home, it would be the dearest place on earth. A single bitter word may make the entire family unhappy for a whole day.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
In its simplest forms the home usually consists of two persons. They are usually husband and wife. They may also be mother and son or mother and daughter or father and daughter, or many other combinations. Here the two seem to have a comparatively little strain put upon them. The problem of each is to bear with the other, that is, to get on with the other comfortably and happily. Fortunate are they if one or if both may be included among those people who grow fonder with association and with time. There are many such. With them, familiarity, instead of breeding contempt, increases regard. They are likely to be those generous spirits who receive nourishment from all their associations, each year keeping their reasonableness of attitude and finding their lives growing richer. On the other hand, there are those who demand greater variety of association. If they have to live with one person they become bored and resentful. There are few sights in the world more dispiriting than that of a married couple who have exhausted their interest in each other and who drag wearily through life like prisoners bound to a chain. The home that they make, no matter how great may be the physical comfort, is certain to be the abode of disillusion and chagrin, and it is likely to express itself in misery and disaster.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Home", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
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"
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time-back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
THOMAS WOLFE
You Can't Go Home Again
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
LYLE LOVETT
Southern Living, Mar. 2012
Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Space
You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
South Wind
I woke with the taste of your apple pie in my mouth,
carried over no doubt from my dreams.
It made me realize how much I miss you and our home.
CHRIS ABANI
Hands Washing Water
The sweetest type of heaven is home -- nay, heaven itself is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; and life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides it from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-Foil