Home Quotes

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1

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

Dorothy Parke

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

Author Unknown

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Robert Orben

Home is where you wear your hat.

Buckaroo Banzai (the film)

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

Doug Larson

It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

Alvaro de Solva

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

Alan Bleasdale

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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

Elmer Davis

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974

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

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001

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 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

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.

Harold B. Lee

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.

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Babe Ruth

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

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

Samuel Butle

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

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

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

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

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

H. L. Mencken