quotations about home
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
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"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
"The old-fashioned homes are disappearing," I recently heard a woman say, with regret in her tone. When I asked her what she meant, she replied: "When I was a girl, though we didn't have much money, we lived in a big, comfortable house, and we had enough to eat and enough to share with any friends who happened to drop in. We had an open-hearted way of living. Our house, like most of the houses of our friends, was an active social center, and it had all kinds of wholesome associations. In a true sense of the word, it gave us the feeling of home. Whenever we went away we knew we should have this place to go back to, and we should find the old happy life going on there just the same. Nowadays people are tending more and more to live in a make-shift way, in apartments and flats. They move often. In my youth the idea of moving would have been like a revolution or an earthquake. We felt that we were as deeply rooted in the home as if we were trees. We had our roots in the ground. Now people think nothing of moving once a year, or even oftener. The result is that we are losing the old stability and the old associations that did so much to give home its healthy atmosphere."
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Home", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
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"
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.
ANGELINA JOLIE
BBC News interview, Apr. 8, 2004
That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING
Revival
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
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
HERMANN HESSE
Demian
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
VICTORIA MORAN
Creating a Charmed Life
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Love true and pure in the domestic circle, whether in the prince's palace or the humblest cottage, is God's greatest blessing--a foretaste of heaven on earth. A happy home, however humble, is to be preferred to an emperor's throne; it is possible to be very poor in worldly riches, and yet be very happy. There is more real happiness on this earth in small cottages than in any other residences, however grand, however stately or magnificent. Happiness is the one thing most of us are striving after; then let us remember it is to be found within ourselves, and not in our surroundings. The beating of loving hearts in cottage homes are oftener heard before the throne of grace than are those in palatial residences, and the sound of them echoes farther through heaven than any earthly paeans chanted from the lips of surpliced choristers, or other songs of praise where the heart's adoration is not with them; for dearer to God is the love and prayers of the poor than any offering that wealth can produce or gold purchase.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On a Happy Home", Short Essays
Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
EMILY DICKINSON
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
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
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
LYLE LOVETT
Southern Living, Mar. 2012
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.
RICHARD FORD
Harper's, Feb. 1992
Home is like what you take away each time you leave the house. Like a wristwatch, it ticks beside the ticking that is your heart. Whether or not you hear it, look at its face, or feel its hold. We're with you is what the minute, hour, and second hands of home have to tell.
MICHAEL J. ROSEN
Home
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
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
There are some people who believe that home is where one hang's one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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