Quotes About Home

and chairs, and a bed with two blankets on it in the corner.

A bed. A chest. A small stand by the bed.

Thuis, dat zijn mensen. Het is niet een plaats. Als je er terugkeert nadat de mensen verdwenen zijn, zie je alleen nog wat er niet is.

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 any more.

Let your children see you kiss. Let them see you embrace. Let them overhear your teasing, your gentle rebukes, even your well-intentioned jealousy. Domestic courtship reinforces the notion that people are together because they want to be together, not because it is the decent, practical thing to do.

The American home has become the noisiest place of utter silence on earth.

The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos , the word for home.

Plants are also integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return.

Is the land a source of belongings, or a source of belonging?

When we call a place by name it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.

A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.

They said that nature was the place where they experienced the greatest sense of belonging and well-being.

She does it for the food and the satisfaction of hard work yielding something so prolific, she says. And it makes her feel at home in a place, to have her hands in the earth.

But to become native to this place, if we are to survive here, and our neighbors too, our work is to learn to speak the grammar of animacy, so that we might truly be at home.

One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment. One woman is our ancestral gardener, a cocreator of the good green world that would be the home of her descendants. The other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to her real home in heaven.

I wanted to know where he felt most nurtured and supported. What is the place that you understand best? That you know best and knows you in return?

It is good to remember that the original woman was herself an immigrant. She fell a long way from her home in the Skyward, leaving behind all who knew her and held her dear. She could never go back.

When we call a place by its name, it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.

When we call a place by name it is transformed from wilderness to homeland. I imagined that this beloved place knew my true name as well, even when I myself did not.

Can they, can we all, understand the Skywoman story not as an artifact from the past but as instructions for the future? Can a nation of immigrants once again follow her example to become native, to make a home?

It's been a balanced exchange: I worked on the pond and the pond worked on me, and together we made a good home.

I wish in the city of your heart you would let me be the street where you walk when you are most yourself. I imagine the houses: It has been raining, but the rain is done and the children kept home have begun opening their doors.

You know, you own a bar and you don't keep alcohol at home," she said, breathless. "I could have had a shot--it sometimes slows labor." "We'll have some on hand for the next one." "You keep talking like that's gonna happen," she said. "How ridiculous." "I think my record speaks for itself. But Mel. I just want to make them, not deliver them." "I hear ya, buddy"..... -Jack and Mel

People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons.