Quotes About Home

These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. DEUTERONOMY 6:6 – 7

David thought living in a house was very difficult. It was not the house itself--that was lovely to be in--but the people. What was so difficult about them was that they constantly seemed to expect him to say and do things he would never have though of, and what appeared sensible and natural to him seemed to surprise them...

Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It's a great job for a woman because she can work at home and always be there for the children.

A certain amount of risk is inevitable, whatever we do, and I cheer myself up in difficult times with the statistic that most accidents happen in the home.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

Some women marry houses.

Houses need humans," Red said. "You all should know that. Oh, sure, humans cause wear and tear—scuffed floors and stopped-up toilets and such—but that's nothing compared to what happens when a house is left on its own. It's like the heart goes out of it. It sags, it slumps, it starts to lean toward the ground.

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack who got lost in the woods. His best friend went after him. Along the way, she had many adventures. She met woodsmen, witches, and wolves. She found her friend in the thrall of a queen who lived in a palace of ice and had a heart to match. She rescued him with the help of a magical object. And they returned home, together, and they lived on, somehow, ever after. It went something like that, anyway.

What's more, divorces there could be granted on the grounds of simple infidelity, while in America that only counted if the extramarital affair had taken place in the marital home.

the real revolution for this century "would be to stop seeing the home as a gendered space" but rather as both a male and female domain, just as we now see the workplace.

leaning in when you have significant caregiving responsibilities requires an intensive support structure at home and lots of flexibility at work.

Home, Sabrina thought, was not a place, but a state of being, a meeting of minds and hearts. Home was the one's strength balancing the other's weakness. Home was the instinctive knowledge of when and where to listen or speak, to hug or hold, to stroke or kiss. Home was the person who completed you in the way only heaven could ordain.

We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Ma mère écrivait, vous pourriez venir vous reposer à la maison, n'osant pas dire de venir les voir pour eux-mêmes.

L'escalier qui monte de la cuisine aux chambres s'est révélé trop étroit pour le passage du cercueil.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.

Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

I definitely want to bake professionally, but as a home baker I am going to need training.

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.