Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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 -- 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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A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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

May Sarton

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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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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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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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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

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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

40.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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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

43.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von