Home Quotes

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Voltaire

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Booth Luce

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Richard Kehl

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Prove

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Dickens

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 is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".

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

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

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

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

Ralph Kine

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Johann von Goethe

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

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

Ken Olsen, CEO DEC 1977

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parke

Television has brought murder back into the home - - where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

Home is where you wear your hat.

Buckaroo Banzai (the film)

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

Home - Keeping youth have ever homely wits.

William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Sir Francis Bacon

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Dille

They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Roger Rosenblatt

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act

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

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".

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Benjamin Harrison