quotations about home
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.
ANGELINA JOLIE
BBC News interview, Apr. 8, 2004
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
HERMANN HESSE
Demian
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
Home is where you hang your architect.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
"Fast and Luce", Vanity Fair, March 1988
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
Home never appears to us so beautiful as when we are remote from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
VICTORIA MORAN
Creating a Charmed Life
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"
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
All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
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
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
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
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
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
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
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
South Wind
I woke with the taste of your apple pie in my mouth,
carried over no doubt from my dreams.
It made me realize how much I miss you and our home.
CHRIS ABANI
Hands Washing Water
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