#Home Quotes

“Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.”

“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“Now no way can I stray;Save back to England, all the world's my way.”

“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

“When I was at home I was in a better place”

“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.”

“I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”

“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.”

“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”

“A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

“We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.”

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.”

“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.”

“When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.”

“What a house - nothin' but rooms!”

“Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.”

“I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.”

“Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.”

“Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.”

“Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine”

“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”

“The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.”

“I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.”

“Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour.”

“Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.”

“Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.”

“Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.”

“The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.”

“The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.”

“The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.”

“I’d rather be at home and eat ice cream than go out and get wasted.”

“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.”

“Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.”

“All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.”

“Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.”

“Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.”

“A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.”

“The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.”

“A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.”

“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”

“The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my house with my car keys. I started the house up. So, I drove it around for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over. He asked where I lived. I said, "Right here, officer."”

“I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.”

“Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.”

“The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?”

“I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!”