Home Quotes

In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs".

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

Joseph Brodsky

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing

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

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Doug Larson

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Neal A. Maxwell

This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 9 11. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home.

Dick Cheney, KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

Home - Keeping youth have ever homely wits.

William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Dazed and Confused

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Prove

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Author Unknown

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

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

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Richard Kehl

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Voltaire

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Sir Francis Bacon

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs.

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