Quotes about home
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“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.”

Alice Hoffman book The Ice Queen

Source: The Ice Queen

Hell

“Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Parting

“Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.”

Dermot Bolger (1959) Irish writer

Source: The Journey Home

“Normal people dont generally find their homes ransacked by demons.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People

“There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.”

Wallace Stegner book Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

Friendship, Happiness, Time

“We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

War

“I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Housing

“Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Abhorsen

Life, Time

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Reading, Housing, Partnership

“Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”

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…

Women

“This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Strong, Reading, Personality

“Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Truth, Night

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“How can this be your car? (Nick)
Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Cars

“I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.”

Shannon Stacey (1972) american writer

Source: Exclusively Yours

Life, Thinking, Future

“You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.”

Arnold Lobel book Frog and Toad Together

Source: Frog and Toad Together

“You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) English critic, essayist, poet and writer

Love, Travel, Family

“Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Mr. Perfect

Men, War, Learning, Fight

“If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Thinking

“I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves”

Ann M. Martin (1955) American writer of children's literature

Source: Dawn Saves the Planet

World, Change

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be — and whenever I look up, there will be you.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4 (Gabriel Oak, proposing to Bathsheba Everdene)

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's… you.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

War, Waiting, Night

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

Source: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

Love, Travel, Lovers, Sea

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

War

“Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

Pleasure, Light

“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Cry

“I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.”

Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

Sense

“Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Heart

“Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Life, Dance

“No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.”

Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Daughters

“God is at home. We are in the far country.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

God, Country

“I didn’t really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

No Direction Home (2005)
Source: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Context: I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere… set out to find… this home that I’d left a while back and couldn’t remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn’t really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?

Way

“Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

Love

“You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Source: Selected Letters

Night

“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: The Tent

Light

“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

Source: Last Scene Alive

Books, Feeling, Thinking, Reading

“I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home."
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Dance

“There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.”

Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist

Men, Beauty, Dreams, Sea

“Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.”

Sue Townsend (1946–2014) English writer and humorist

Thinking, Night

“I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

Life, World, Thinking

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Distant

“That’s the way it is with dreams. They scratch at your door. You see them through the peep hole: a stray dream looking for a home. You think it might go away if you ignore it. Wrong. It’s still there when you open the door, smiling. Wagging its tail.”

Monique Duval (1924–2014) Canadian journalist

Smile, Dreams, Way, Thinking

“Let us away, my love, with happy speed;
There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see,
- Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead.
Awake! arise! my love and fearless be,
For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Love, Happiness, Speed

“Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.
Come let us fart in the home.
There is no art in a fart.
Still a fart may not be artless.
Let us fart and artless fart in the home.”

Ernest Hemingway book 88 Poems

Source: 88 Poems

Art, Heart

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Books

“Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Night

“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom… and a moth ate my sports jacket.
He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Sport, Night

“… and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Variant: You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
Source: Gone Girl

Life, Drink, Thinking

“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Spring

“The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. A fine example was the Prodigal Son—when he started back home.”

O. Henry book The Four Million

"The Green Door" http://books.google.com/books?id=dKk_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+true+adventurer+goes+forth+aimless+and+uncalculating+to+meet+and+greet+unknown+fate+A+fine+example+was+the+Prodigal+Son+when+he+started+back+home%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)

Fate

“Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide.
Welcome to Canada, idiot.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Time, Parting

“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me……..”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (pp. 8)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: My Name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in The Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead...

Hunger, Hate, Game

“Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.”

Gregory Maguire (1954) Novelist

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

People

“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

“Home is the place where they have to take you in”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

Peaceful

“So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Love, Girl, Lovers, Thinking

“Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.”

Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012) American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects

People

“Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Guilt and Sorrow, st. 41 (1791-1794) Section XLI.
Context: And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong)
That I, at last, a resting-place had found:
'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long,
Roaming the illimitable waters round;
Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned.
And end my days upon the peaceful flood—
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound;
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

Food

“She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Feeling

“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”

Michael Mewshaw (1943) American writer

Way, Feeling, Personality

“Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.”

Marilynne Robinson Home

Source: Home

God, Faith

“You called me and said you were home and wanted to go out for a pizza."
"I did? What time is it?"
"Time for pizza," [Catarina] replied.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

Time

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Any place I hang my head is home.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

“This is my temporary home
It's not where I belong
Windows and rooms that I'm passing through
This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this is my
Temporary home”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Source: Play On: Piano/Vocal/Chords

Way

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

Sadness

“A home to come back to every day of their lives.
Where they would all belong or long to be.
A place on the Jellicoe Road.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Love, Soul, Cats, For Mother

“We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?

Happiness

“There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Way, Boy, Time

“Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;
And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;
And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

Variant: Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
Source: America for Me (1909), Lines 9-12.

Dreams, Flowers, Study

“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.”

Steven Brust book Issola

Source: Issola

“It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one’s life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: The Historian (2005), Ch. 37

Life, Joy

“It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) French writer

Joy

“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

World

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

“T. V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

National Observer (15 August 1966).
Variant: One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs
Context: One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.