Motivational Quotes

Home

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

Best Quotes about Home

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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

Betjeman, John

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

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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 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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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eucharista Ward

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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

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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

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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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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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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

May Sarton

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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)

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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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

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

Hesse, Hermann