Quotes About Home

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: "Jesus Christ lives here.

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.