HOME QUOTES III
quotations about home
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Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
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American Flint
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For almost everyone the notion of home is usually a positive one. It is the known as opposed to the unknown; it is certainty as opposed to uncertainty, security rather than insecurity, the knowledge that in the final analysis someone else, our parents, will make the necessary decisions and will protect us from harm. It is the familiar and predictable. Better that than the unknown, the unpredictable, with a stranger imposing strange ways. It is also the primordial sense of the need for security, of being held, of belonging.
STEPHEN SHAW
"Returning Home"
It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
An Art of Living
Man, through all ages of revolving time,
Unchanging man, in every varying clime,
Deems his own land of every land the pride,
Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside;
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
The West Indies
Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Lord Jim
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
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
SYDNEY SMITH
letter, Sep. 29, 1843
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
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
KIN HUBBARD
attributed, Cassell's Book of Humorous Quotations
If you know you're going home, the journey is never too hard.
ANGELA WOOD
Judaism for Today
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
Home is like a bee-hive; there may be much toil, there must be much order, but there will always be a honeyed sweetness.
EBENEZER COLOHAM BREWER
A Guide to English Composition
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
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
Home is like the ship at sea,
Sailing on eternally;
Oft the anchor forth we cast,
But can never make it fast.
JESSEE H. BUTLER
"Home"
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
PAUL SIMON
The Boxer
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
JEREMY TAYLOR
Twenty-Seven Sermons
A home is like a nest--it's only useful for so long.
DAVID LYNCH
Lynch on Lynch
The fate of the home depends on the first night.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage