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Quotes About Home

But it was not just my grandmother there waiting for her husband to come home happy or dead. The side stories of revolution were there in Tapachula, a whole town of displaced people put on hold, taken out of time, not so different from the Nogales in which I was raised . . . . they were towns next to countries, but inside countries as well.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
you've built your home you've fledged your birds you've beaten the wind with your bones you've finished alone what no one began
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Tu aliento se me fue haciendo costumbre, y ahora lo único que sé es que ya no podría vivir sin él; lo necesito junto a mí y para siempre, contra mi propia almohada. En tu casa o en la mía ¡qué importa! cualquiera de las dos puede ser la nuestra. Elige tú.
~ Alejandro Casona
Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I've never been separated from you," said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint Thomas said, "A friendship that can end has never been a true friendship." In
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Znaš", zamišljeno je rekao Pronek, "mislim da gdje god ti je dom postoji i barica po kojoj znaš da li pada kiša." "Kako to misliš?" "Ono, kad pogledaš kroz prozor i ne znaš da li pada i onda pogledaš svoju baricu i onda znaš." "Da, znam. To je lepo." "Ja sam imao svoju baricu u Sarajevu, ispred ku?e.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
It's not about where you belong, it's about what belongs to you," I told her...I was twenty-seven (and a half) and Sarajevo belonged to me.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
We are within our life and we stay there for as long as possible, that's our home. We need life. There is too much death already, and there is probably more coming our way.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
El hogar es allí donde tu ausencia no pasa desapercibida
~ Aleksandar Hemon
He probably came here to like live for free with his grandmother. Mrs. Alzheimer, née Loaded.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Addio, casa ancora straniera, nella quale la mente si figurava un soggiorno tranquillo e perpetuo di sposa.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
la patria e' dove si sta bene..
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Yeah, but where I come from, we have lights at night." "We do, too. They are called stars. They are quite romantic.
~ Alex Flinn
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.
~ Alex Garland
Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
~ Alex Witchel
For it was while Jesus was at home "in His own city," as Capernaum came to be called, that the palsied man was brought to Him to be healed; and from all the evangelists we learn that it was on His way out from the house where that miracle was wrought that He saw Matthew, and spoke to him the word, "Follow Me.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
A man's home is his wife's castle.
~ Alexander Chase
La maison d'un homme est le château de son épouse.
~ Alexander Chase
divisions at home would invite dangers from abroad;
~ Alexander Hamilton
It was remarked in the preceding paper, that weakness and divisions at home would invite dangers from abroad; and that nothing would tend more to secure us from them than union, strength, and good government within ourselves. This subject is copious and cannot easily be exhausted.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Home had a new meaning now. Jago watched him, and was satisfied. Like
~ Alexander Kent
Somehow, by some accident, he had been lost on a planet that was not his own.
~ Alexander Key
If our thoughts are stretching across the sea to the landing at home, and the welcome there, we shall not fight with our fellow-passengers about our cabins or places at the table.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
~ Alexander Pope
How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air, In his own grounds
~ Alexander Pope