Motivational Quotes

Home

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Home

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

Lamb, Charles

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Betjeman, John

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Luce, Clare Boothe

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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.

Fry, Stephen

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Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home.

Eucharista Ward

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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Smith, Sydney

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What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Meyer, Agnes

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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.

Lady Kasluck

18.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Byron, Lord

19.

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.

Weston, Edward

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There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

Bachelard, Gaston

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If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Morris, William

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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Johnson, Ben

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Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Child, Lydia M.

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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

Harold B. Lee

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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Johnson, Samuel

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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Duras, Marguerite

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A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

Duras, Marguerite

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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Montgomery, Robert

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I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Levi, Primo

38.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Twain, Mark

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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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 honor, 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.

Ruskin, John

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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Churchill, Winston

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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.