quotations about home
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman--it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
There are some people who believe that home is where one hang's one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
Home never appears to us so beautiful as when we are remote from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
VICTORIA MORAN
Creating a Charmed Life
Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Space
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time-back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
THOMAS WOLFE
You Can't Go Home Again
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples--temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers' honour, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.
JOHN RUSKIN
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Awfully glad to be home
My heart suddenly mends again
Among my neighbors and friends again
As I start tying loose ends again
IRVING BERLIN
"Glad to be Home"
That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING
Revival
Home is like what you take away each time you leave the house. Like a wristwatch, it ticks beside the ticking that is your heart. Whether or not you hear it, look at its face, or feel its hold. We're with you is what the minute, hour, and second hands of home have to tell.
MICHAEL J. ROSEN
Home
It's a funny thing about coming home--looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You realize what's changed is you.
ERIC ROTH
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
LYLE LOVETT
Southern Living, Mar. 2012
Why am I going home? he asked himself. But he knew why. It was time. In order not to lose all that he had gained, he had to move forward and risk it all.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
For too many people, coming home is like arriving at a second job. With all the chores to do, bills to pay, mail to answer, e-mail to answer, and the rest, home can seem more like a pit stop than a sanctuary.
VICTORIA MORAN
Creating a Charmed Life
I feel like I've never had a home. You know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in. And the same thing applies to the theater. I don't know exactly how well I fit into the scheme of things. Maybe that's good, you know, that I'm not in a niche. But there's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I've found that what's most valuable about that place is not the place itself but the other people; that through other people you can find a recognition of each other. I think that's where the real home is.
SAM SHEPARD
attributed, Sam Shepard
The sweetest type of heaven is home -- nay, heaven itself is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; and life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides it from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-Foil
Love true and pure in the domestic circle, whether in the prince's palace or the humblest cottage, is God's greatest blessing--a foretaste of heaven on earth. A happy home, however humble, is to be preferred to an emperor's throne; it is possible to be very poor in worldly riches, and yet be very happy. There is more real happiness on this earth in small cottages than in any other residences, however grand, however stately or magnificent. Happiness is the one thing most of us are striving after; then let us remember it is to be found within ourselves, and not in our surroundings. The beating of loving hearts in cottage homes are oftener heard before the throne of grace than are those in palatial residences, and the sound of them echoes farther through heaven than any earthly paeans chanted from the lips of surpliced choristers, or other songs of praise where the heart's adoration is not with them; for dearer to God is the love and prayers of the poor than any offering that wealth can produce or gold purchase.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On a Happy Home", Short Essays