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Best Quotes About Home (Top 100)
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A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen -
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost -
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
Edith Sitwell -
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce -
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
Maya Angelou -
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
Brian Andreas -
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...
John Muir -
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott -
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau -
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth -
We're all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass -
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener -
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder -
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
John Waters -
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville -
Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
Truman Capote -
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther -
Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
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 -
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Cesare Pavese -
Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.
John O'Donohue -
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome -
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
Thomas Hardy -
If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.
L. Frank Baum -
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison -
What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons
Gene Wilder -
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Dick Gregory -
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker -
The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'
Nizar Qabbani -
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
Wendell Berry -
I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.
Andrea Gibson -
While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.
Mary Church Terrell -
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.
Anne Lamott -
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness — just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.
Amy Carmichael -
A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier -
A man fishes for two reasons: he's either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he's either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he's going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.
Steve Harvey -
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham -
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore -
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
Robert E. Lee -
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers within you. Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alone can awaken what is divine within you. In love, you grow and come home to your self. When you learn to love and let yourself be loved, you come home to the hearth of your own spirit. You are warm and sheltered.
John O'Donohue -
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.
Anna Sewell -
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.
William Saroyan -
Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
Colin Wilson -
It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!
Harry Caray -
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier -
You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.
Omar Khayyam -
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.
Thomas Wolfe -
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.
Gordon B. Hinckley -
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.
Greg Mortenson -
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long.
Marilynne Robinson -
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow -
You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
Tove Jansson -
The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems — Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.
Farid Al-Din Attar -
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin -
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving -
Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.
Jean Rhys -
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
Scott Westerfeld -
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Thomas Wolfe -
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.
Edward Said -
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
Erica Jong -
You can't go home again
Thomas Wolfe -
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby -
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow -
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
Langston Hughes -
Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.
Linda Howard -
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.
John Denver -
Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.
Shel Silverstein -
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash -
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius -
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho -
A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
Rodney Dangerfield -
Where are we really going? Always home.
Novalis -
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown -
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home — will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.
Marguerite Duras -
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie -
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner -
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth -
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli -
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin -
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Kin Hubbard -
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
Madeleine L'Engle -
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Andrew Vachss -
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.
Victor Borge -
Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.
Billy Carter -
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
David Foster Wallace -
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
Pearl S. Buck -
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Smedley Butler -
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder -
The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.
David O. McKay -
But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.
Thomas Wolfe -
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Stephen King -
You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.
Henry Rollins -
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern -
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
Even More Home Quotes
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Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.
Janette Oke -
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
Douglas Mawson -
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
Jack Adams -
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige -
The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.
Harold B. Lee -
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou -
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
Gwendolyn Brooks -
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Romain Rolland -
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Thomas Moore -
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach -
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
Trent Reznor -
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
Vance Havner -
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Deng Xiaoping -
Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.
Bruce Chatwin -
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
John Wayne -
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich -
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.
Sophie Scholl -
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
Erma Bombeck -
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin -
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost -
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
Sylvia Browne -
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe -
The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing. All the others fled from Howling Forest in time, but we didn't want to leave our home. The Nothing caught us in our sleep and this is what it did to us." "Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked. "No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.
Michael Ende -
Every child deserves a home and love. Period.
Dave Thomas -
My troubles are over, and I am finally home.
Anna Sewell -
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
Guru Nanak -
Adventure must start with running away from home.
William Bolitho -
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
Andy Warhol -
The prospect of going home is very appealing.
David Ginola -
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart -
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore -
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark -
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
Red Adair -
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth -
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis -
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks -
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
Colin Chapman -
Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
Henry Lawson -
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart -
Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.
Harvey Milk -
The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.
Candice Bergen -
and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.
Craig Thompson -
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West -
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.
Anthony Doerr -
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys -
And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.
Ben Sherwood -
Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
Elizabeth Bishop -
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
James Lee Burke -
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Edward Rowland Sill -
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck -
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
Robert Southey -
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Chaim Potok -
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
David Gerrold -
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.
Rutherford B. Hayes -
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller -
There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.
Tove Jansson -
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Anthony Edwards -
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.
Shirin Ebadi -
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
Daniel Boone -
I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.
Bob Lemon -
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
Jill Scott -
At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Ann Landers -
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
Countee Cullen -
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
Herodotus -
We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
Leo Szilard -
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry -
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.
Hank Aaron -
Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.
Thomas Kinkade -
Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.
Harry Crews -
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the Elder -
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller -
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
Walker Percy -
I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
Audie Murphy -
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock -
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
Thomas Kinkade -
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.
Giuseppe Mazzini -
Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home " they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
Jeanette Winterson -
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.
Celia Cruz -
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
Andy Griffith -
It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
Alfred Jarry -
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
Kingman Brewster Jr -
For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
Abraham Cowley -
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Lance Morrow -
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich -
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln -
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.
Edward Thomas -
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin -
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris -
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...
William McKinley -
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.
Alexandra Ripley -
She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.
Candace Bushnell -
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
Bob Hawke -
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.
Chris Rose -
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond -
What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.
Michael Ende -
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.
James Lee Burke -
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.
Os Guinness -
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Sydney Smith -
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
Bob Goodlatte -
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.
Bruce Chatwin -
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
James Buchanan -
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
Babe Ruth -
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette Davis -
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Henrik Ibsen -
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis -
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.
Margaret Mead -
This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
George MacDonald -
I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
Blanche Lincoln -
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
George Washington Carver -
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
Lord Dunsany -
If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth's grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God's will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham's bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.
John Newton -
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants—mainly at fast food restaurants.
Eric Schlosser -
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
John Betjeman -
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
Charles Evans Hughes -
Didn't anyone tell you that size doesn't matter?" "Yes, but I told him to put his pants back on and go home.
Christine Warren -
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw -
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
Hank Aaron -
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.
Albert Schweitzer -
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
Helen Rowland -
I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
Nancy Reagan -
Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.
Tom Holt -
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard -
You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
Julia Roberts -
Charity begins at home.
Terence -
Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop.
Elfriede Jelinek -
I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
Bruce Baum -
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker -
I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.
Casey Affleck -
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
Bernadette Peters -
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
O. Henry -
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.
James M. Cain -
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.
Sue Townsend -
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.
John Gardner -
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
Earl Long -
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Helen Rowland -
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing -
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE.
Herschel Walker -
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott -
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
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 -
Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin..
John Paul Stevens -
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.
Herbert Hoover -
Your home needs to be a place where your kids can failâand learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don’t try to undo their failures. It’s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.
Kevin Leman -
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.
Georg Trakl -
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
Bruce Barton -
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder -
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Bo Bennett -
When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.
Tony Stewart -
All I was trying to do was get home from work.
Rosa Parks -
Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.
Liz Murray -
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.
Glenway Wescott -
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
Barbara Boxer -
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron -
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.
Charlotte Bronte -
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch -
I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.
Bill Lee -
Seek home for rest, for home is best.
Thomas Tusser -
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller -
Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.
Patrick O'Brian -
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
Noel Coward -
Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Joseph Rodman Drake -
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 -
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Edward Coke -
My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand -
If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.
Lyall Watson -
Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing.
Carlo Ancelotti -
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson -
You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.
Jodi Picoult -
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...
Bess Streeter Aldrich -
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben -
The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.
John Mason Brown -
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.
Thomas More -
When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before that an evening with you was waiting for me after school, now no more, strange feeling. I had grown too accustomed to your warmth. That is also a danger. At home I looked at the notebooks that you had bought and I got the stupidest surge of hope that I'd find something of you, something especially for meant for me. I would so much like to have something of you that I could always keep by me, that nobody else would notice.
Sophie Scholl -
We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.
Brian Schweitzer -
And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
Colin Meloy -
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
Hal Borland -
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
Alfred Kazin -
I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.
Willie Stargell -
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Thomas Fuller -
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
Charles W. Chesnutt -
The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser -
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Herbert Marcuse -
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
Loretta Young -
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues—self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.
Edwin Way Teale -
And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
Aaron Allston -
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
Roberto Clemente -
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
Margaret Oliphant -
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan -
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
Anne Baxter -
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney -
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
George S. Kaufman -
Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.
Roger Maris -
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.
Edward Weston -
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister Eckhart -
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson -
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.
Lloyd Jones -
Unfriending me when I didn't even know we were friends? It's like breaking wind when you're home alone. If I can't smell you, knock yourself out.
George Takei -
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
James Brady -
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Hector Hugh Munro -
I think I feel automatically at home in Italy
Boyd Rice -
I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
Arthur Godfrey -
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home
Cliff Burton -
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
Clifton Fadiman -
What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.
Rachel Zoe -
Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run
Babe Ruth -
Kiss till the cow comes home.
Francis Beaumont -
By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.
Jonathan Alter -
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.
John Howard Payne -
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
Craig Claiborne -
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas -
I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
Gary Allan -
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
Bud Abbott -
He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door—to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?—would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too—in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?
Connie Willis -
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
Frank Dane -
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Taslima Nasrin -
A man's home is his wife's castle.
Alexander Chase -
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale -
The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.
Philip Gourevitch -
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.
Laurie R. King -
I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.
Anna Chlumsky -
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate -
One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.
Alphonso Jackson -
Let's just win it and go home.
Barry Sanders -
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
John Mason Brown -
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan -
I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
Beryl Bainbridge -
Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.
Horace Smith -
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Margaret Fuller -
And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
Bobby Scott -
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
John Newton -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.
Margaret Drabble -
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
John Paul Stevens -
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
Henry Vaughan -
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
Gene Robinson -
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Margaret Mead -
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel— Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
Charles Stuart Calverley -
Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
Bud Abbott -
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
Bill Klem -
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
Bennett Cerf -
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
Henry James -
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
James Montgomery -
How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. ... whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.
James Agee -
He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
Joseph P. Kennedy -
There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
Alvin Dark -
There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster -
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
Ann Landers -
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.
Rose Macaulay -
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...
Booth Tarkington -
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one's home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession " to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership " is a joke.
Neal Ascherson -
Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
Terry Pratchett -
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
Lawana Blackwell -
Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.
Henry Anatole Grunwald -
What brought me back here was my players, ... I know who Rashard (Lewis) is. I know who Nick (Collison) and Luke are, and I don't know what those other guys (on other teams) bring to the table. This is where I've made home and I didn't want anything different and I didn't need anything different.
Ray Allen -
Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.
Francis Thompson -
Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
Alan Jay Lerner -
Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
Bill Copeland -
I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet
Cynthia Nixon -
Home wasn't built in a day.
Jane Sherwood Ace -
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
Channing Pollock -
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
Charles Henry Parkhurst -
What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup — that's good in bed.
Brooke Shields -
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
Bonnie Hunt -
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud -
My best evenings are at home with my lady.
Billy Zane -
If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy -
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Winston Churchill -
Everything we have is everything we love - it's basically like we picked for our homes and then just put it for sale in a store.
Helena Christensen -
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson -
Peace - that was the other name for home.
Kathleen Norris -
When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.
Amy Irving -
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
Rosa Parks -
Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!
Alfre Woodard -
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.
Christian Wiman -
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
Will Cuppy -
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
Ann Douglas -
We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help.
Marc Morial -
So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.
Cornelius Nepos -
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.
John Jay Chapman -
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we'll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren't causes of middle-class status, they're markers for possessing the kinds of traits " self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. " that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn't produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.
Glenn Reynolds -
A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her
Chinese Proverbs -
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Robert Burns -
It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.
Anthea Turner -
To feel at home, stay at home.
Clifton Fadiman -
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Robert De Niro -
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
Willie Morris -
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
Earl Wilson -
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
Marcel Achard -
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.
Bess Streeter Aldrich -
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller -
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Family the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
August Strindberg -
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Elizabeth Bowen -
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard -
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell -
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
William Feather -
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali -
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Golda Meir -
The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl—everything.
Allan Sherman -
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley -
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard -
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold MacMillan -
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw -
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
George Bernard Shaw -
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.
Chauncey Depew -
This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.
Bob Newhart -
A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt
George Carlin -
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
Jello Biafra -
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Alice Walker -
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed
Erma Bombeck -
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
Ellen DeGeneres -
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda -
Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.
Thomas Campbell -
We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
Chelsea Clinton -
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
Abraham Lincoln -
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.
Joseph Brodsky -
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing
Hugh Laurie -
The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree -
Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!
James Elroy Flecker -
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.
Stephen Fry -
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 -
It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.
Louis Untermeyer -
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay -
I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.
Chuck Knox -
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell -
[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.
Edward Bellamy -
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. Nixon -
We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
Earl Weaver -
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."
Robert Burns -
Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.
Asafa Powell -
I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
Bear Bryant -
On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
Anthony Hopkins -
At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
Annette Funicello -
Home advantage gives you an advantage
Bobby Robson -
Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
Kin Hubbard -
Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets
Bruce Springsteen -
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all â he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
Charles Farrar Browne