Home Quotes

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Leonid Brezhnev

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

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

Home - Keeping youth have ever homely wits.

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

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

Author Unknown

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parke

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Edith Ann

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

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

Sir Francis Bacon

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.

Unknown

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Home is where the house is.

Child Age 6

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

Paul Sadle

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

Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....

John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

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

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

Ken Olsen, CEO DEC 1977

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

H. L. Mencken

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Sir Winston Churchill

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Benjamin Harrison

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

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Cristion Morgenstern

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Alan Bleasdale

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

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Peter De Vries

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order - Poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Booth Luce

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer, The Odyssey

When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.

Francis Bacon, 1597 - 1625