Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Home

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Smith, Sydney

10.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

11.

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

12.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

16.

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

17.

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

John Howard Payne

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Montgomery, Robert

23.

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

May Sarton

24.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

26.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

27.

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

Pollock, Channing

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

Eucharista Ward

31.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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)

38.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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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

40.

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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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

43.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

45.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Hesse, Hermann

49.

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