Home Quotes
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".
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
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.Saint Augustine
The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball.Ralph Kine
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
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
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
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
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
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.A. Edward Newton
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.Janis Joplin
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
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.Cristion Morgenstern
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.Don Frase
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
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.Author Unknown
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Francis Bacon
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
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
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.Weekend Update
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
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
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
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
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
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953
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
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
