Home Quotes

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.

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

Paul Sadle

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

Fred Allen

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Roger Rosenblatt

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

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

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home - Made bread - - There may be.

David Grayson

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Prove

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

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

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