Home Quotes

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

James Thurbe

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

Paul Sadle

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

Clare Booth Luce

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

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

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in face, you should go home and examine your consicence.

Woodrow Wilson

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

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".

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Ann Douglas

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

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.

Samual Rutherford

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Francois Arouet

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

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

Television has brought murder back into the home - - where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".

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

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

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

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.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Neal A. Maxwell

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

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

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

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

Ken Olsen, CEO DEC 1977

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

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

Edith Ann

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

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

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

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

Ken Olson