Motivational Quotes

Home

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)

Best Quotes about Home

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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 is his wife's castle.

Chase, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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

Eucharista Ward

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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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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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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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