Motivational Quotes

Home

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.

Best Quotes about Home

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Johnson, Ben

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

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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

16.

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

Hesse, Hermann

17.

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

Proverb, Turkish

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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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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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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Betjeman, John

24.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

25.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

27.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

28.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

33.

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

34.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

38.

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

Pollock, Channing

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

Chase, Alexander

42.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

43.

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

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

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

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

John Howard Payne

49.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

50.

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

Eucharista Ward