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Quotes About Home

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.
~ Craig L. Thomas
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
~ Ben Marcus
Some things make me emotional in a good way. When my son does well in school, I get real emotional because that's a testament to what I'm feeding him at home on a daily basis as far as knowledge goes. I wasn't so emotional until I had my first son.
~ Monica
I'd hate to live where people knew my history. I love familiarity on holiday but not at home, as I'm sure my neighbours would testify - if I'd ever met them.
~ Sarah Millican
Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home.
~ David A. Bednar
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
~ Robert Montgomery
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
~ Robert Morgan
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
~ Robert Neelly Bellah
He had a sensitive drained face the face of a small boy lost on the Fairgrounds after everyone has gone home.
~ Robert Nichols
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
~ Robert Plant
If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.
~ Robert Pogue Harrison
Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.
~ Robert Pogue Harrison
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
~ Robert Seymour Bridges
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits
~ Robert Southey
Rooted in the family, and having nothing to do with the complexes or inner struggles of the individual, Roman piety was put to the service of the city-state which embraced family hearths and homes.
~ Robert Turcan
should be read in the Golden Future, some snowy evening by the fire after a home dinner à deux. Your predestined husband, mademoiselle, is to extend his god-like figure upon a sofa, with an ash-tray convenient. You are to do the reading, curled up in the big velvet wing-chair, with the lamp at your left elbow and the fender under your pretty feet.
~ Robert W. Chambers
Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC), which is a nonprofit entity formed to distribute Audio Home Recording
~ Robert Wolff
Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all I did was start to cry like a fool, for no apparent reason.
~ Roberto Bolano
since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some dangerous indeed)
~ Roberto Bolano
I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.
~ Robin Hobb
I want to go home,' he muttered as he totered down the road beside me. 'Me, too,' I told him. And yet it was not Buckkeep that came to my mind, but a meadow overlooking the sea, and a girl in bright red skirts who beckoned me. A time, rather than a place. No road led there anymore.
~ Robin Hobb
Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.
~ Robin Hobb
I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.' 'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked. Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet.
~ Robin Hobb
Fitz, home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.
~ Robin Hobb