Home Quotes

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

Paul Sadle

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

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

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

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

Cristion Morgenstern

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Fred Allen

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Dille

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

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

Miguel de Cervantes

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Alan Simpson

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

Saint Augustine

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

Ralph Kine

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

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

Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

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

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

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

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