Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Montgomery, Robert

Best Quotes about Home

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

Dane, Frank

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

May Sarton

11.

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

12.

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

Harold B. Lee

15.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

17.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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

21.

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

22.

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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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

24.

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

37.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

38.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Proverb, Turkish

40.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

41.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

42.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

44.

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

Chase, Alexander

45.

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

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

48.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.