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Quotes About Home

It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Life and I became friends some years ago - not the sort of exciting friendship I longed for as a child, but a kindly truce, a pleasure in coming home every day to my apartment. I have a moment now and then - as I peel an orange and take it from kitchen counter to table - when I feel almost a pang of contentment, perhaps at that raw colour.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
For the first time in all the years I remembered, all the years in which my father had sheltered me from the loneliness of life with no mother, no siblings, no home country, all the years of his being both father and mother - for the first time, I felt like an orphan.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstâncias mais extraordinárias, durante episódios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais distantes de casa e de tudo que nos é familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestável alegria.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
I've retrained myself since childhood into a kind of diligent goodwill toward life. Life and I became friends some years ago - not the sort of exciting friendship I longed for as a child, but a kindly truce, a pleasure in coming home
~ Elizabeth Kostova
If you hate it, if you find you have made a mistake, it will still have been a change. As with a holiday, if it ends in your wishing to come home, its aim is accomplished.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Steadfast as the points of the compass to Mrs. Arbuthnot were the great four facts of life: God, Husband, Home, Duty. She had gone to sleep on these facts years ago, after a period of much misery, her head resting on them as on a pillow; and she had a great dread of being awakened out of so simple and untroublesome a condition.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Steadfast as the points of the compass to Mrs. Arbuthnot were the great four facts of life: God, Husband, Home, Duty. She had gone to sleep on these facts years ago, after a period of much misery, her head resting on them as on a pillow; and she had a great dread of being awakened out of so simple and untroublesome a condition. Therefore
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher sat in front of me watching every mouthful, just as though he hadn't had an enormous dinner a few minutes before, and the cat, finished with Knobbie's ears, deftly turned her over and began tidying her stomach, I did feel that my feet were set once more in the path of peace, and that all I had to do was to continue steadily along it.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Please come back soon. The window is always open.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I've got to go home. Even if such place doesn't really exist.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I can remember neing in high school, walking through Central Park on a chilly day, and the sound of stamping on the crispness of autumn leaves would make me think of the sensation of my head cracking open. And I would get really scared and run all the way home, running for cover.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
~ Alfred Jarry
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
~ Alfred Kazin
Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.
~ Alfred Lansing
They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake. Worsley recorded: "Waking on a fine morning I feel a great longing for the smell of dewy wet grass and flowers of a Spring morning in New Zealand or England. One has very few other longings for civilization—good bread and butter, Munich beer, Coromandel rock oysters, apple pie and Devonshire cream are pleasant reminiscences rather than longings.
~ Alfred Lansing
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me!And may there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deepTurns again home.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
But I'm telling you. I swear, music. I get home, and it's the music again. Every night I hear it playing. I don't know what to do about it. - Have you tried dancing to it?
~ Ali Smith