Motivational Quotes

Home

My home is not a place, it is people.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Home

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hesse, Hermann

10.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Johnson, Ben

13.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

14.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

16.

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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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

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

Eucharista Ward

20.

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Pollock, Channing

27.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

28.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

May Sarton

33.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

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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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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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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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Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

47.

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

48.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard