
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of travel, home, going, people.
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”
“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Emma (1815)
Works, Emma
“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”
The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
Disputed
Source: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth
“We're all just walking each other home.”
“that, can be your home now, let me be your home now.”
Source: da Your home
On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)
Nahj al-Balagha
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg
in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22
1850 - 1870
“You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.”
Source: Comet in Moominland
“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.”
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”
Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis
“Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.”
Quoted in Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (1988), p. 157
“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
“On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?”
"Shrine or Factory?" (1918); translation from Mikhail Anikst et al. (eds.) Soviet Commercial Design of the Twenties (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987) p. 15
Interview with CONMEBOL, 2015 http://www.conmebol.com/en/04132015-2140/messi-being-father-has-helped-me-grow-and-think-life-there-are-other-things-besides
Variations of this piece have also been misattributed to Andy Rooney and Woody Allen. The original source is a variation on a piece by Sean Morey. ( "snopes.com: Andy Rooney on Everything", Snopes.com, 2012-09-09 http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney3.asp, )
Misattributed
“We're waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die. And then we'll move into their homes.”
1992-02-14 at Kokusai Koryu Centre, Osaka, Japan
Stage banter
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Books, The Beggar, Volume IV: Die Before Dying (Hari-Nama Press, 2005)
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 387
In response to: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Discover Magazine interview with Virginia Morell (28 March 2007)
"Ariana Grande: "I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding"" https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ariana-grande-i-love-animals-4754625, interview with the Mirror (5 December 2014)
“She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside.”
"Nobody's Home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eLfvdeInFg (2004)
The Rock's return to WWE Raw as host of WrestleMania XXVII (14 February, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ejiG5-BtA&feature=related.
Brown, J. & Tucker, B. (2003). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul, p. 266. Thunder's Mouth Press: New York. ISBN 1-56025-388-6
As quoted in Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler (2009) by Frank McDonough
Context: I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. Unprepared, given over to childish trivialities, it could be taken by surprise when the great hour comes and find that, for the sake of piffling pleasures, the one great joy has been missed. I am aware of this, but my heart is not. It seems unteachable; it continues its dreaming … always wavering between joy and depression.
Closing lines, p. 174
Memoirs, Unreliable Memoirs (1980)
Context: As I begin this last paragraph, outside my window a misty afternoon drizzle gently but inexorably soaks the City of London. Down there in the street I can see umbrellas commiserating with each other. In Sydney Harbour, twelve thousand miles away and ten hours from now, the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back. All in, the whippy's taken. Pulsing like a beacon through the days and nights, the birthplace of the fortunate sends out its invisible waves of recollection. It always has and it always will, until even the last of us come home.
Source: From "The Joy of Painting" Mobquotes https://mobquotes.com/bob-ross-quotes/
“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.”
Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 115.
1870s
Context: Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. My second principle of foreign policy is this—that its aim ought to be to preserve to the nations of the world—and especially, were it but for shame, when we recollect the sacred name we bear as Christians, especially to the Christian nations of the world—the blessings of peace. That is my second principle.
“There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“when you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
“Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!”
"Discussion on Making All Things Equal".
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
Source: Tears and Saints (1937)
On the United States
2006 annual address to the Federal Assembly
“You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out.”
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Lyrics, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, 1970
Before his fight with Archie Moore (1962), as quoted in "Muhammad Ali was also great for civil rights" by Mark Wiedmer, in Times Free Press (17 January 2012) http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jan/17/muhammad-ali-also-great-for-civil-rights/?print
Linda Shrieves (July 7, 1990) "Bob Ross Uses His Brush to Spread Paint and Joy", The Orlando Sentinel, p. E1.
Interview with Robin Denselow (May 2008)
Source: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2280144,00.html, Robin Denselow talks to African superstar and activist Miriam Makeba, The Guardian, 15, London, 16 May 2008, 18 November 2010
" 'I Am at Home' Says Robeson at Reception in Soviet Union http://www.mltranslations.org/Miscellaneous/RobesonSU.htm", Daily Worker (15 January 1935)
Regarding his desire to be deployed in the Iraq War. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4248234.stm (2005).
Everything Has Changed, written by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.
Song lyrics, Red (2012)
Interview with The Sun, as quoted by MTV http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/justin-bieber/201278-justin-bieber-my-world-20, March 2010
Regarding the Vietnam War and conscription (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFMyrWlZ68
Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 49
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
that's my slogan.
Huey Long (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
Talking about drugs, quoted in **
Audioslave Era
Quoted in: Charlotte Gray. Mother Teresa: Her Mission to Serve God by Caring for the Poor. G. Stevens, (1988), p. 53
1980s
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“Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—
to travel home and see the dawn of my return.”
V. 219–220 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.
Speech in the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, on the Question of the Ratio of Representation in the two Branches of the Legislature (2 December 1829) http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/quotes/slavery.html
1820s
Nobel lecture (1970)
Context: The divergent scales of values scream in discordance, they dazzle and daze us, and in order that it might not be painful we steer clear of all other values, as though from insanity, as though from illusion, and we confidently judge the whole world according to our own home values. Which is why we take for the greater, more painful and less bearable disaster not that which is in fact greater, more painful and less bearable, but that which lies closest to us. Everything which is further away, which does not threaten this very day to invade our threshold — with all its groans, its stifled cries, its destroyed lives, even if it involves millions of victims — this we consider on the whole to be perfectly bearable and of tolerable proportions.
On working in webseries https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/sukriti-kandpal-except-for-supernatural-and-naagin-shows-i-dont-think-much-has-changed-on-tv/articleshow/70315084.cms/
Speech in Taunton (28 April 1835), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 286
1830s
Address to the UK on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, which occurred during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, 08/05/2020 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-queen-ve-day-speech-read-full-a9506226.html.
Source: Speech to the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), pp. 534-535
“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home”