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Quotes About Home

The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game.
~ Jeff Noon
I looked at Jake. I was firmly planted in the 'Lolly is real' camp. Our real estate agent had passed on the bit about Lolly being the ghost of the original owner of the home and that past residents had reported her presence due to various incidents. The one thing they'd all mentioned, however, was that she'd seemed friendly and helpful, as far as ghosts go. I was totally fine with a friendly and helpful ghost.
~ Jeff Shelby
I'm sorry for your loss, Mr. Thorpe. But hiring me to bust into someone's home and steal a dog…I'm guessing that breaks all sorts of laws. I could have my license revoked, I could go to jail—" "I'll triple your fee." "I take cash, checks, or major credit cards.
~ Jeff Strand
I like to think of it as, my parents live with me,
~ Jeff Strand
Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Najbol?a definicija zavi?aja jeste biblioteka.
~ Elias Canetti
It's not a house to us. It's a home. And it's not a home, it's s way of life. Our summertime happens here. This house is part of our past, it's our present, it'll be our future. It's who we are.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
You can create a climate for him according to your attitude, and this is part of your job as a wife. The home you make and the atmosphere of that home is the world he comes back to from the world of his work. Let it be a place of beauty and peace.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
We had a little brass plate over the front doorbell that said "Christ is the head of this home, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means nostalgia and yearning and grief for lost places.
~ Elizabeth Berg
He wanted to be the guy standing in the dimness by their kids' beds as Nola kissed them, and then he would kiss them, too. "Night," he'd say. Why did that single word offer so much comfort? He guessed it was because it said so much. Home. Safety. The prospect of another day together as soon as morning came. He wanted to walk down the stairs to the living room afterward, and sit with Nola in the lamplight and talk.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Earth's the right place for love.
~ Elizabeth Berg
When Arthur gets home, he pulls the mail from the box, brings it into the kitchen to sort through it, then tosses it all in the trash: junk mail. A waste of the vision he has left, going through it.
~ Elizabeth Berg
warmth of her house settles around her. Come here, dearie, says the kitchen. Come and have a nice slice of cake.
~ Elizabeth Berg
He taught her one of her favorite words: hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means nostalgia and yearning and grief for lost places.
~ Elizabeth Berg
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. The need to attach themselves makes wandering people strike roots in a day: wherever we unconsciously feel, we live.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Why not just tell my parents the boarding school thing wasn't working out, and go home? That offer had been on the table from the beginning, after all. I could live at home forever, growing white-haired and teaching piano and taking in stray cats until the neighborhood children started weaving tales of my tragic past and my story was adapted for Lifetime Television.
~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Gradually people began to speak of the place as Amberside, though there were a few diehards who never stopped calling it Villa Caprice, or, as in the case of Eli Scaynes, the Villa Cay-priss. But Julian and Joe and Tom and Lucy and Davey never called it anything but the Blake's house; and Portia and Foster never called it anything but home. All their lives they knew that one of the best things that ever happened to them was to be able to call it that.
~ Elizabeth Enright
The whole house is impeakable.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.
~ Elizabeth George
Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.
~ Elizabeth George
Home is the best place to teach young men and women about God's kind of love.
~ Elizabeth George
Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.
~ Elizabeth George
Give me insight and wisdom in making my home reflect Your presence. You are welcome here! Amen.
~ Elizabeth George