Motivational Quotes

Home

My home is not a place, it is people.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Home

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

May Sarton

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

Eucharista Ward

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

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

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

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Chase, Alexander

14.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

Smith, Sydney

20.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

24.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

25.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Hesse, Hermann

30.

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

31.

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)

32.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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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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

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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

40.

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

Harold B. Lee

41.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

42.

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

Johnson, Ben

43.

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

Proverb, Turkish

44.

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

Pollock, Channing

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

47.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin