quotations about home
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Home is where you hang your architect.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
"Fast and Luce", Vanity Fair, March 1988
What's a home without people? Just a big house with a dog in it.
JOHN RAPPAPORT & LARRY GELBART
"Oh, How We Danced", M*A*S*H
It's a funny thing about coming home--looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You realize what's changed is you.
ERIC ROTH
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Awfully glad to be home
My heart suddenly mends again
Among my neighbors and friends again
As I start tying loose ends again
IRVING BERLIN
"Glad to be Home"
For too many people, coming home is like arriving at a second job. With all the chores to do, bills to pay, mail to answer, e-mail to answer, and the rest, home can seem more like a pit stop than a sanctuary.
VICTORIA MORAN
Creating a Charmed Life
If joy, kindness, consideration, happiness, service should radiate from every one in the home, it would be the dearest place on earth. A single bitter word may make the entire family unhappy for a whole day.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
I feel like I've never had a home. You know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in. And the same thing applies to the theater. I don't know exactly how well I fit into the scheme of things. Maybe that's good, you know, that I'm not in a niche. But there's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I've found that what's most valuable about that place is not the place itself but the other people; that through other people you can find a recognition of each other. I think that's where the real home is.
SAM SHEPARD
attributed, Sam Shepard
It is easy to listen to far off echoes unmoved, and we can treat them with disbelief, or scorn, or disdain, or whatever attitude of coldness may suit our purpose. But when the scandal came close home it was another matter; and the feelings of independence and integrity which is in people of every community which is not utterly spoiled, asserted itself and demanded that condemnation should be expressed.
BRAM STOKER
"The Secret of the Growing Gold"
I woke with the taste of your apple pie in my mouth,
carried over no doubt from my dreams.
It made me realize how much I miss you and our home.
CHRIS ABANI
Hands Washing Water
Why am I going home? he asked himself. But he knew why. It was time. In order not to lose all that he had gained, he had to move forward and risk it all.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room
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' honour, 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.
JOHN RUSKIN
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
I don't want a house. I want a home and that takes two people.
LOUISE BAKER
"Counterfeit Plates", Biff Baker, U.S.A.
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time-back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
THOMAS WOLFE
You Can't Go Home Again
Home is the reflex of the combined thoughts of parents. The Scriptures say: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," and it might truly be said, as the parents think, so will the children be impressed, for the child is much more susceptible to impression than one of mature years.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Space
The sweetest type of heaven is home -- nay, heaven itself is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; and life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides it from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-Foil
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart