Quotes about home

A collection of quotes on the topic of home.

„I still don't know why they banned me" she says. "I said to them, 'What did I do? I never killed anybody. I was never arrested for anything bad, so why can't I go home?.“

— Miriam Makeba South African singer and civil rights activist 1932 - 2008

As quoted in
Interview with Robin Denselow (May 2008)

„I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?“

— Paul Newman American actor and film director 1925 - 2008

Quoted in Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (1988), p. 157

Marriage

„She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.“

— Katherine Paterson, book Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

World

„I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king“

— Huey Long American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator 1893 - 1935

that's my slogan.
Huey Long (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)

Chance, Education, Children, Men

„I'm very proud [to be part Italian] … Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. … I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding. But I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-round happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know – veggies, fruit and salad – then when I get home I'll have something else.“

— Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993

"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)

Personality, Parting, Animals, Food

„A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.“

— Aga Khan IV 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism 1936

Princess Zahra quoting His Highness the Aga Khan in her acceptance speech upon receiving the World Habitat Award, Kazan, Russian Federation (4 October 2006)

Future

„It was my first time away from home, my first experience in an all-black situation, and I found myself being punished for everything I'd ever been taught was right. I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk. I had to learn a new language simply to deal with the threats. I had good manners, and was a good little boy and paid for it with my hide.“

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar American basketball player 1947

Giant Steps, 1983.

Time, Learning, Boy, Hate

„I was very different from most kids. I would stay home and write and put on shows when other people would go to the football game, and… I think I just put all that energy into wanting to get out of there and do something with my life.“

— Chris Colfer actor, singer, book author 1990

Interview Quotes, Random Quotes

Football, Thinking, Game, People

„My parents took my ambitions seriously. They took an hour each way to training. They were waiting for me, and when I wanted to go home alone, I took the bus from Warsaw to Leszno for two hours. When I was late, I had to seize an opportunity, sometimes someone took pity and took me away.“

— Robert Lewandowski Polish association football player 1988

Training, Parent, Way, Waiting

„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.“

— Sophie Scholl White Rose member 1921 - 1943

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.

Forgetting, Heart, Way, Life

„I have been lucky in having multipronged career. You know how I have been an actor, a publisher, a film maker. But in none of these fields have I felt quite as much at home as play writing.“

— Girish Raghunath Karnad Indian playwright 1938 - 2019

[Sahu, Nandini title=The Post-colonial Space: Writing the Self and the Nation, http://books.google.com/books?id=xs_tj0tDnnwC&pg=PA59, 2007, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 978-81-269-0777-9, 117-18]

„One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.“

— Pam Brown Australian poet 1948

Housing, Change, Cats

„Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?“

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, book On Fairy-Stories

On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Context: I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.

Thinking