Home Quotes

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam James Ervin, Jr.

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

Author Unknown

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

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

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.

Irish Blessing

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

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

Home is where you wear your hat.

Buckaroo Banzai (the film)

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

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 words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Ricthe

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

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dave Thomas

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

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, Distichs, latter 19th century

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

Harold B. Lee

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Johann von Goethe

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

Saint Augustine

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

The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball.

Ralph Kine

Charity begins at home.

Terence, Andria

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

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Samuel Butle

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

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

Doug Larson

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing