Quotes About Home

They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

It seems wiser to do as hermit crabs do, find a shell and inhabit it.

All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

Life don't stop just cause you leave home, Miss Celie. You know that." Excerpt From The color purple Alice Walker This material may be protected by copyright.

each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth.

That summer marked the beginning of a realization that I could never live happily in Africa--or anywhere else--until I could live freely in Mississippi.

She got a whole bunch of elephants and turtles everywhere. Some big, some little, some in the fountain, some up under the trees. Turtles and elephants. And all over her house. Curtains got elephants, bedspreads got turtles.

For anyone but the landed gentry to refer to a room in their house as 'the library' might seem affected. But there really was no other word for it.

until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves.

maa tujhe salaam pher lete hai nazar jis waqt bete or bahu.. ajnabi apne hi ghar me hae ban jati hai maaa..

It's starting to snow," Kitty announced excitedly. "Do you suppose we will all be able to get back home all right? Washington gets so confused when it snows.

Allen Ginsberg to Peter Orlovsky— 1958 Tho I long for the actual sunlight contact between us I miss you like a home. Shine back honey & think of me.

washing terror-waves round earth-globe back to suburb TV home night kitchens

Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my eyes in the trees? So I will build: wife, family, and seek for neighbors. Or I perish of lonesomeness or want of food or lightning or the bear (must tame the hart and wear the bear). And maybe make an image of my wandering, a little image—shrine by the roadside to signify to traveler that I live here in the wilderness awake and at home.

That's the downside of bringing one clan into contact with another: by the time that everyone has been introduced, it's practically time to go home.

Your eyes are wide open. I feel as though I could step inside them and make myself at home.

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn't worked out.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.

They passed lands that had no name, where fens of mirror pools stretched into unknown distances, thousands of fragments of sky sprinkled across this bastard offspring of earth and sea, lonely birds calling out over the desolation, and Yarvi breathed deep the salt chill and longed for home.

That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of the river you called home.

And they'll follow you?' asked one of Forest's aides. 'They'll follow anyone who feeds them,' said Jurand. 'Especially if he points them in the direction of home.

Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place we were born? Are our aspirations our home? Maybe we are from that place to which we're bound, and that's why desire hurts so much, this longing to find a place to rest, to get home. We're not from the past, but the future.