Motivational Quotes

Home

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

- Herman Melville

Best Quotes about Home

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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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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A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.

May Sarton

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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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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.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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

Eucharista Ward

31.

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

Betjeman, John

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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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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

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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Dickens, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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

John Howard Payne

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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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

Montgomery, Robert

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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De