Home Quotes
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.Elmer Davis
Home is where the house is.Child Age 6
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.Jawaharlal Nehru
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.A. Edward Newton
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.Mahatma Gandhi
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order - Poetry the best words in the best order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.Peter De Vries
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.Robert Benchley
This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 9 11. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home.Dick Cheney, KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.Clare Booth Luce
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.Thomas A. Edison
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.Francis Bacon, 1597 - 1625
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.Johann von Goethe
I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Sir Francis Bacon
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.Charles Dickens
Solo homers usually come with no one on base.Ralph Kine
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.George Moore
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.Alexander Pope
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
A home without books is a body without soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.Henry Ward Beeche
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.Robert Frost, "The Death of a Hired Man".
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs.Weekend Update
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.Dennis Kucinich
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - - And let the air out of their tires.Dorothy Parke
