Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Home

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

John Howard Payne

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

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

Betjeman, John

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

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

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

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Johnson, Ben

10.

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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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

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Montgomery, Robert

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

19.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

20.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

Wolfe, Elsie De

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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Pollock, Channing

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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

24.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

25.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

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

Eucharista Ward

31.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

Proverb, Turkish

35.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

40.

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

Dane, Frank

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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.