Motivational Quotes

Home

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

Best Quotes about Home

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

Eucharista Ward

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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)

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

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

Pollock, Channing

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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

Dane, Frank

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

Byron, Lord

10.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

11.

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

12.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

Proverb, Turkish

14.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

16.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

20.

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

21.

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

Montgomery, Robert

22.

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

John Howard Payne

23.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

25.

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

Harold B. Lee

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

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

Hesse, Hermann

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

37.

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

Johnson, Ben

38.

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

May Sarton

39.

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

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

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

Betjeman, John

42.

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

Hubbard, Kin

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

50.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John