Home Quotes

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Home is where the heart is. 

Pliny the Elder

Everyday is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

William J. Bennett

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

Le Corbusier

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Robert Montgomery

And each heart is whispering, "Home, home at last!"

Thomas Hood

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

George Washington

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Channing Pollock

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

John Ed Pearce

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Tad Williams

Better my own cottage than the palace of another.

Welsh Proverb

Every house where love abides
and friendship is a guest is surely home,
and home sweet home; for there the heart can rest.

Henry Van Dyke

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Kenny Guinn

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Mark Twain

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

Angie Harmon

The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.

Ellie Rodriguez

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Winston Churchill

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Home is where you hang your head.

Groucho Marx



You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Maya Angelou

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.

Sarah J. Hale

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Kathleen Norris

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other.  It is the place of confidence.  It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts.  It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

Frederick W. Robertson

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel De Cervantes

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.

Robert Southey

One returns to the place one came from.

Jean De La Fontaine

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