HOME QUOTES III
quotations about home
Home!
By what magic comes this spell?
What wand has touched these humble walls,
And made them glow as with a holy warmth?
What disembodied spirit glorifies the place?
Whose feet may claim the phantom echoes
That bring once more a thrill?
Whose memoried voice is this that holds
More sacred music in its roughest note
Than ever came from seraph's throat?
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"The Lesser Deity", A Soliloquy of Life
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Titcomb's Letters to Young People
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
We can recall what home is like, or rather, what we want home to be like--safe, secure, serene, beautiful. We know that there is a way to get there, if only we can find the right road, if only we can remember where home is, or, rather, was.
LOUISE DESALVO
Crazy in the Kitchen
You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
American Flint
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
SYDNEY SMITH
letter, Sep. 29, 1843
Home! that one spot, wherever situated,
Clothed with grace no other clime may share,
From her bright precincts, by her love created,
Spring fadeless wreaths that later years shall wear;
Around her lowliest paths of daily duty
Gush rippling fountains, from Youth's glistening sands
Flow down the years, and dim with heaven-born beauty,
The glare and glitter of all other lands.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"California's Woodlands"
Home is like a bee-hive; there may be much toil, there must be much order, but there will always be a honeyed sweetness.
EBENEZER COLOHAM BREWER
A Guide to English Composition
Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Lord Jim
If you know you're going home, the journey is never too hard.
ANGELA WOOD
Judaism for Today
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath nowhere to lay his head.
BIBLE
Matthew 8:20
Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The first sense of self as a success or failure develops within the home, regardless of what the home is like. Some homes are like prisons; some are like sanctuaries. Some are like playgrounds or circuses or hospitals or hotels or schools.
MURIEL JAMES
It's Never Too Late to Be Happy
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
JEREMY TAYLOR
Twenty-Seven Sermons
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
PAUL SIMON
The Boxer
Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Dhalgren
A home is like a nest--it's only useful for so long.
DAVID LYNCH
Lynch on Lynch
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
JEROME K. JEROME
They and I