quotations about home
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman--it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)
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Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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
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
Home is like a house inside your head where your thoughts gather. You learn to love others in the living room where you let the light in. Some rooms will be dark places where your demons reside. Learn to control that darkness. Let those uninvited guests have their moments, then usher them out the door. You have forgiveness when the demons become powerless. They will always come back, but you have freedom when you become the keeper of the keys.
MARCUS ERIKSEN
My River Home
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
PETER DE VRIES
The Tunnel of Love
Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
PIERCE BROWN
Golden Son
When home is ruled according to God's word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
CHARLES SPURGEON
John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures
Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Life of Samuel Johnson
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail--its roof may shake--the wind may blow through it--the storm may enter--the rain may enter--but the King of England cannot enter!--all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER
The Edinburgh Review, Jul. 1838
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
In many homes people appear at their worst, reaching as close to the savage as they can. The restraints of convention they cast off, together with all the accompanying protection. It is startling, at times, to note the difference between people when they are at home and when they are abroad. The most refined and courteous in public can at home be the most discourteous and coarse. There are many children, of well-to-do families, too, who never learn the elements of politeness till they grow old enough to mingle with the world outside.
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 men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples--temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers' honour, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.
JOHN RUSKIN
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
There are many homes, serene enough to the observer from the outside, that, under the surface, are like armed camps.
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
I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a ... well, as a place, a building ... a house ... of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can ... well, nest.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Night of the Iguana
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
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"
Though the fire of the heart may have withered its core
Unto ashes and dust--though the head have turned hoar
Ere its time, as the surfs o'er the breakers that foam--
Still, a tear will arise when we think upon Home.
ALBERT PIKE
"Home"
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room