Motivational Quotes

Home

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.

Best Quotes about Home

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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

Hesse, Hermann

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

12.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

Betjeman, John

14.

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

Johnson, Ben

15.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Dane, Frank

16.

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

17.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

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

Montgomery, Robert

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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!

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord

21.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

22.

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

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Eucharista Ward

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

29.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

30.

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

31.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

38.

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

40.

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

41.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Bryson, Bill

42.

Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

43.

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

44.

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

Harold B. Lee

45.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

46.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

King, Florence

47.

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

Ford, Richard

48.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

49.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Chase, Alexander

50.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward