Quotes about home
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“We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Way

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: The Beach House

Love, Time, Housing, Patience

“Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely."
William chocked on his own tongue.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Seduction

Forgiveness

“Home is where they want you to stay longer.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

“there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.”

Jon McGregor book If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Laughter

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

School, Time

“It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.”

Ambeth R. Ocampo book Rizal Without the Overcoat

Source: Rizal Without the Overcoat

Love, Learning

“Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

Drink, Heart

“In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

People

“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Men, Dreams

“What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.”

Richard Russo (1949) American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter

“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere.”

Chaim Potok (1929–2002) American rabbi

People, World, Beauty, Way

“All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home… and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

School, Time, Personality

“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 5: The Passes 
Context: Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

World, Fear, Mountain

“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Heart

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

http://uzomediangr.com/tag/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-quotes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Travel, Search, Thinking

“I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.”

Clive Cussler (1931) Novelist

Source: The Sea Hunters

Coffee

“Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.”

Jenna Blum book Het familieportret

Source: Those Who Save Us

Heart

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Way, Thinking

“He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It’s not my business. But if you’re asking me if I’ve brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don’t want anybody but you.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Girl, Business

“Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Light, Perfection

“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

School

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Variant: Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Books, Tea

“Hey, Fnick can I change the channel, the game's on." -Iggy

"Make yourself at home, FIGGY" -Fang”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Variant: So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on."
"Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.
Source: School's Out—Forever

Game, Change

“America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

An American and France (1936)

Country

“May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Heart, Wedding

“If I have to scour the entire earth, I'll hunt her down. I will no' falter. One day I will bring my female back to my home - back to my bed… She was born to be found by me.
-Garreth MacRieve, King of all Lykae”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Men, War, Fight

“Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.”

Janette Oke (1935) Canadian writer

Love, Feeling

“Maybe you should go home and rest," Simon told Meg. Maybe he could go home with her and they could cuddle for a while or play a game. Or she could watch a movie with him and pet him.”

Anne Bishop book Murder of Crows

Source: Murder of Crows

Game

“If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

Soul

“I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Love, Family, Hope, Cooking

“Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

“The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Life

“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.”

Jean-Dominique Bauby book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Life, Memory, Past

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

Maya Angelou book All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Question

“A Baby Sermon-
The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Star, Light, Baby

“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

Source: Giovanni's Room

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Marriage, Children, People

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Life, School

“When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love, Angels

“Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.”

Jeanette Winterson book Gut Symmetries

Source: Gut Symmetries

People, Lie

“I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.”

Meg Cabot book Ninth Key

Source: Ninth Key

Life, Business, Thinking

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”

Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer

Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Women, Children, Intelligence, Communication

“I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“Poppy: Um, can we cross running water?
James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Vampire/Daughters of Darkness/Spellbinder

People, Water

“I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Tea

“She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Waiting

“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.”

Anthony Doerr (1973) American writer

Country

“Take her home. And-"
"Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Time

“It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

People

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

Books, World, Beauty

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

World, Education

“I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Guy, Night

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“This place is just too frickin precious," the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup to match. "Give me rednecks and home-grown beer any day of the week over this X-culture bullshit.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Guy, Beer

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Variant: Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

Books, Reading

“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
I keep it, staying at Home—
With a Bobolink for a Chorister —
And an Orchard, for a Dome”

Emily Dickinson Some keep the Sabbath going to Church

324: Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

Happiness, Guy, Boy, Hell

“There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot… I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.”

Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer

Money, Success, Help

“As Rumi says, “We’re all just walking each other home.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.”

Margaret Wise Brown The Runaway Bunny

Source: The Runaway Bunny

Bird, Tree, Flying

“We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Hope

“There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Girl

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) American writer

World, Travel, Search, Family

“If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.”

Melissa Senate (1965) american writer

Source: The Breakup Club

Heart

“Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened.
He was home again.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Time, Country

“No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”

Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur

World

“I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.”

Marie Corelli (1855–1924) British writer

Dogs, Cats, Night

“You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

Boy, Learning

“If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Variant translation: If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
VI, 21
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

Truth, Search, Thinking, Change

“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Life, Truth

“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Variant: I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
Source: Love, Rosie

Feeling

“That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

Thinking

“They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Source: Cash

Dogs, Way, Time

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar…”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Sadness

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

People, Beauty, Country

“I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Housing, Box

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

Joanne Harris book Five Quarters of the Orange

Source: Five Quarters of the Orange

Moving On

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Thinking, Heart, Housing

“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”

Tracy Chevalier book Girl with a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring

Life

“Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight.
I was safe.
I was warm.
I was home.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Life, Chance

“The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Books, Summer

“I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?”

Nancy Leigh DeMoss (1958) American radio host

Women

“I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling… I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.”

Stephen J. Cannell (1941–2010) American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor

Coffee, Waiting

“Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar”

Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020) British book editor

Source: The Hobbit

Star

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Children, Way, Funny, For Parents

“Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

"Returning Home" http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2877&Itemid=0, Shambhala Sun (March 2006) <br class="br">Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: Love Bites

Life, Suffering, Teachers, Time