Home Quotes

There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

First, your home is a constant, while the Net is a place you go; then the Net becomes a constant while your home is a place you go.

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d As home his footsteps he hath turn’d From wandering on a foreign strand!

You know what helped us in the Swindoll home? To think of where we live as a training place, not a showplace. The home is a laboratory where experiments are tried out. It is a place where life makes up its mind. The home is a place where a child is free to think, to […]

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

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 storms may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the […]

That is my home of love: if I have rang’d, Like him that travels, I return again. (Sonnet 109)

No matter how carefully you plan, and no matter how rationally you justify your behavior, trying to run two homes at the same time is a crazy, difficult task that produces more frustrations than rewards… Don’t try it if you scare easily.

Eretrians, of Euboa; and at Susa buried here. Exiles learn how far home is and how dear!