quotations about home
It's a curious rite of passage, isn't it? Visit the old places. First you wonder how you lived so uncomplainingly in such cramped circumstances. The streets are narrower, the buildings smaller than you ever remembered. It's like coming back to Lilliput.
DON DELILLO
Underworld
Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone.
MICHAEL J. ROSEN
Home
Home, hard to know what it is if you've never had one
Home, I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the hurt is
U2
"Walk On"
Home is like the ship at sea,
Sailing on eternally;
Oft the anchor forth we cast,
But can never make it fast.
JESSEE H. BUTLER
"Home"
The youth without a home is like a mariner without a compass, in a boundless sea: he has no point from which or to which to direct his course, but is driven, here and there, upon a tumultuous ocean, unknowing and unknown.
WILSON CONWORTH
The Knickerbocker, Feb. 1837
The fate of the home depends on the first night.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South
The cave-man who first piled stones together into a rude hut did it to provide a shelter for his most precious possession, the sacred fire. There is a sacred fire that burns in every real home; an altar to restfulness and forbearance and love. The man who can claim that altar, whether the shelter built about it be a mansion or only a single room, he it is who owns his own home.
BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON
More Power to You
There is no doubt that, for the sake of getting away from home, many girls make loveless marriages. This circumstance is unquestionably a much neglected factor in the divorce problem. Only too often those girls escape from one evil, into another, perhaps worse. Ibsen, in some of his plays, suggests that he believed marriage for a home was likely to be disastrous. And yet it is the motive of many a marriage that turns out well. There is a big difference between marrying for a home and marrying for a happy home. Those women who prize homes do not necessarily prize happiness; they prefer the sense of possession and of authority and of physical comfort, of what they regard as success in life.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Home", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
In many homes people appear at their worst, reaching as close to the savage as they can. The restraints of convention they cast off, together with all the accompanying protection. It is startling, at times, to note the difference between people when they are at home and when they are abroad. The most refined and courteous in public can at home be the most discourteous and coarse. There are many children, of well-to-do families, too, who never learn the elements of politeness till they grow old enough to mingle with the world outside.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Home", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
Home can never be expressed,
Till the soul has found its rest.
Home is transient here below,
And its term we cannot know:
It is like the sun's last ray,
Dying with departing day.
Home is like the robin's nest,
Now in downy feathers drest,
But tomorrow nowhere found,
In the air or on the ground.
JESSEE H. BUTLER
"Home"
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON
Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel
Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Brave New World
Home and heaven are not so far separated as we sometimes think. Nay, they are not separated at all, for they are both in the same great building. Home is the lower story, and is located down here on the ground floor; heaven is above stairs, in the second and third stories; and, as one after another the family is called to come up higher, that which seemed to be such a strange place begins to wear a familiar aspect; and, when at last not one is left below, the home is transferred to heaven, and heaven is home.
ALEXANDER DICKSON
Beauty for Ashes
I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a ... well, as a place, a building ... a house ... of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can ... well, nest.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Night of the Iguana
At home the very walls lend you strength.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
New Watch
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its back-room, its dressing-room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much débris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Little Foxes
How much happier would be every home if only right thoughts could always be disseminated. Brothers and sisters do not all have the same taste, temperament and endowment. Parents should study the need of each child as it unfolds. The good or bad influence of the home is usually perpetuated. From a misgoverned and disordered home many go forth to make other homes unhappy and miserable.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
One never reaches home ... but where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.
HERMANN HESSE
Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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