quotations about home
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 isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
PIERCE BROWN
Golden Son
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
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
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Space
Home is like a house inside your head where your thoughts gather. You learn to love others in the living room where you let the light in. Some rooms will be dark places where your demons reside. Learn to control that darkness. Let those uninvited guests have their moments, then usher them out the door. You have forgiveness when the demons become powerless. They will always come back, but you have freedom when you become the keeper of the keys.
MARCUS ERIKSEN
My River Home
What's a home without people? Just a big house with a dog in it.
JOHN RAPPAPORT & LARRY GELBART
"Oh, How We Danced", M*A*S*H
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room
It is easy to listen to far off echoes unmoved, and we can treat them with disbelief, or scorn, or disdain, or whatever attitude of coldness may suit our purpose. But when the scandal came close home it was another matter; and the feelings of independence and integrity which is in people of every community which is not utterly spoiled, asserted itself and demanded that condemnation should be expressed.
BRAM STOKER
"The Secret of the Growing Gold"
"The old-fashioned homes are disappearing," I recently heard a woman say, with regret in her tone. When I asked her what she meant, she replied: "When I was a girl, though we didn't have much money, we lived in a big, comfortable house, and we had enough to eat and enough to share with any friends who happened to drop in. We had an open-hearted way of living. Our house, like most of the houses of our friends, was an active social center, and it had all kinds of wholesome associations. In a true sense of the word, it gave us the feeling of home. Whenever we went away we knew we should have this place to go back to, and we should find the old happy life going on there just the same. Nowadays people are tending more and more to live in a make-shift way, in apartments and flats. They move often. In my youth the idea of moving would have been like a revolution or an earthquake. We felt that we were as deeply rooted in the home as if we were trees. We had our roots in the ground. Now people think nothing of moving once a year, or even oftener. The result is that we are losing the old stability and the old associations that did so much to give home its healthy atmosphere."
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
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Life of Samuel Johnson
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples--temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers' honour, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.
JOHN RUSKIN
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Home never appears to us so beautiful as when we are remote from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Though the fire of the heart may have withered its core
Unto ashes and dust--though the head have turned hoar
Ere its time, as the surfs o'er the breakers that foam--
Still, a tear will arise when we think upon Home.
ALBERT PIKE
"Home"
There are many homes, serene enough to the observer from the outside, that, under the surface, are like armed camps.
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
When home is ruled according to God's word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
CHARLES SPURGEON
John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
VICTORIA MORAN
Creating a Charmed Life
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time-back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
THOMAS WOLFE
You Can't Go Home Again
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail--its roof may shake--the wind may blow through it--the storm may enter--the rain may enter--but the King of England cannot enter!--all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER
The Edinburgh Review, Jul. 1838