Home Quotes

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Ann Douglas

Your body is just the place your memory calls home.

Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing

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

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

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Robert Benchley

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

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I

Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

Joan Winmill Brown

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home - Made bread - - There may be.

David Grayson

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

Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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".

This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

John Ruskin

Home is where the house is.

Child Age 6

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

It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

Alvaro de Solva

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw