Quotes about home
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“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

People, World, Family, Smile

“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Age, Hope, Night, Birthday

“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”

Barbara Pym book Less than Angels

Less than Angels (1955), chapter 9

Life, Pleasure, Sadness, Cooking

“Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Madness, Clothes

“If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.”

Dave Barry book Peter and the Starcatchers

Source: Peter and the Starcatchers

Boy

“Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way”

Jason Fried software entrepreneur

Source: Rework

Way, Motivational

“There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder book Little Town on the Prairie

Source: Little Town on the Prairie

“Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'
Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. '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

Love, Housing, Box

“You know, I would date if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. But most are such a waste of time that I’d rather sit at home and watch reruns of Hee Haw.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Time

“Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home

Sex, Baby, Personality

“I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: The Collected Stories

Life, Thinking

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Family, Peaceful

“There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.”

Tove Jansson book Moominvalley in November

Source: Moominvalley in November

Change, Time

“I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

School, Fight

“The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.”

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) Novelist, poet, writer, activist

Women, Men, God, Children

“How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection..”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Family, Boy, Thinking

“The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 1

Problem, Light

“Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.”

Billie Letts (1938–2014) American novelist and educator

“Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!”
With that, I had no option but to join them.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Girl, Time, Scouting

“I would always wait to take you home.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Waiting

“That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.”

Janet Evanovich Four to Score

Source: Four to Score

Men, Cars, Daughters

“This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Daughters

“Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Problem, Bird

“We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist

The reference to Cassius is that of the character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Listen to an mp3 sound file http://www.otr.com/murrow_mccarthy.shtml of parts of this statement. <br class="br">See It Now (1954) <br class="br">Context: No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.

World, Freedom

“When you’ve found the right one - when you see him, when you’re with him - you’ll feel like you’re coming home.”

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1933) American children's writer

Source: Now I'll Tell You Everything

Feeling

“A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.

A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.

A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.”

J. Patrick Lewis (1942) American children's writer and poet

Books, Tree

“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Children

“For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“My home is not a place, it is people.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

People, Beauty, Family, Peaceful

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”

Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Feeling, Change

“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Star, Lovers, Heart

“I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Family, Understanding, Time, Past

“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”

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

Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)

Hate, School, Learning

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Life, School, Parting, Daughters

“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”

Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) German author

Understanding

“A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”

Joseph Stein (1912–2010) American playwright

Source: Fiddler on the Roof

Love, Bird, Fish

“You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?”
“Mmm,” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

Sleep, Housing

“She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by her mother's bedside, hold her limp hand, and home someone else, somewhere else, would be able to do what she couldn't.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.”
“Michael Jackson lived here?”
“No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

World

“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Source: Green Hills of Africa

Feeling

“Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.”

Madeleine L'Engle book Meet the Austins

Source: Meet the Austins

Parting, Peaceful

“There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place, a warm person. It exists, I know it does”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Love, Happiness, Smile, Parent

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

Waiting

“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”

Scott Westerfeld book The Last Days

Source: The Last Days

People

“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

People

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Books, Reading

“Health makes good propaganda. “'Proof' that women's activities outside the home are detrimental to the health and welfare of themselves, their families and the country as a whole” lent impetus, writes Ann Oakley, to the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity. The ovaries were seen as collective property rather than the woman's own business, as the face and body outline are seen today. Who can argue with health?”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 227

Women, Health, Family, Business

“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Happiness, Time, Help

“He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Coffee

“I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve.
But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following."
And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: An Offer From a Gentleman

Smile, Way

“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

Source: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead

People, Back To Work

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

“That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Relationship

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

Tree

“Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming… I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Hurt

“I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

Stupidity

“He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Family, Fight

“It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from
Albany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared
to deal with it, move to Miami.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: Dangerous

People, Winter

“Your time's running out, Valkyrie." Fegley gave another wallop before he squeaked off.

Regin narrowed her eyes, watching him till he was out of sight. "One day I'm going to make that little piggy cry all the way home.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Way, Time, Cry

“When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse”

Theodore Dreiser book Sister Carrie

Source: Sister Carrie

Girl

“You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not… No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

People, World, Personality

“I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Books, Sense

“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom,
The water flows.”

Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period

World, Smile, Soul, Mountain

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

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

Speech, Constitutional Convention (29 June 1787), from Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Vol. I http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llfr&fileName=001/llfr001.db&recNum=494&itemLink=D?hlaw:5:./temp/~ammem_kmli::%230010495&linkText=1 (1911), p. 465 <br class="br">1780s <br class="br">Context: In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”

Marilyn Hacker (1942) American writer

Love