Quotes About Home

Later in his life Gautama told the story of his decision in a sermon: 'And so it came about that, in the full freshness and enjoyment of my youth, in glowing health, my hair still black, and against the wishes of my weeping and imploring elders, I shaved my head and beard, dressed in coarse robes, and forsook the shelter of my home.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

Discussion keeps a house alive. It cannot stand by bricks and mortar alone.

Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an after-life in the city of ghosts, while from others—and thus was the death of Wickham Place—the spirit slips before the body perishes . . . By September it was a corpse, void of emotion, and scarcely hallowed by the memories of thirty years of happiness.

We merely want a small house with large rooms, and plenty of them.

Here had lived an elder race, to which we look back with disquietude. The country which we visit at week-ends was really a home to it, and the graver sides of life, the deaths, the partings, the yearnings for love, have their deepest expression in the heart of the fields.

The rural idyll of Howards End (based on Forster's beloved childhood home, 'Rooksnest') is symbolic of England itself

Don't fall into the habit of bringing work home, Rick. It indicates a lack of planning, and you would eventually find yourself stuck indoors every night. Teaching is like having a bank account. You can happily draw on it while it is well supplied with new funds; otherwise you're in difficulties. "Every

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

Sonra k?z bir kilim dürmü? s?rtl?yor. Kilim onun eviymi?.

Bude tako neobi?no. Kao da si turist u vlastitom gradu. Postaneš netko drugi kad ne odeš ku?i, nego odeš u hotel. Kao da si u svoj život ušao kroz neka druga vrata...

I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.

White liberals weren't loud racists. They were simply racial philanthropists who, after a good deed, return to their suburban homes with their white picket fences or to their apartments in segregated cities with their consciences content.

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

True love never fails. It will ever blossom like flowers in good wether, taste like day dream and also warm like a home greeting

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home,A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes havet' roamAfore ye really 'preciate the things ye lef' behind,An' hunger fer 'em somehow, with 'em allus on yer mind.

Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me homeTo the glory that was Greece,And the grandeur that was Rome.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Our apartment is similar to the one on Ganghoferstrasse, only much smaller.

Those years on Marbachweg were among our best times.

If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.