Quotes About Home

Dry bread at home is better then curried prawns abroad.

Now that their journey was almost over, they become more aware of their weariness and their aches, and the town which had been their home seemed suddenly strange and heartless, as though it did not recognize them anymore.

Once You Have Lived with the Mountains' it is not easy to live elsewhere. I longed to return to the hills and live in a place with windows facing beautiful views. That is what I explore in 'Best of All Windows'. For a room without a view is hardly a living place—merely a place of transit.

For a room without a view is hardly a living place—merely a place of transit.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

It was the Dutch of this era who invented the idea of the home as a personal, intimate space; one might say they invented coziness.

tiles in the hearth at number 6, real pot tiles

THE TALKING FISH My love's eyes are red as the sargasso With lights behind the iris like a cephalopod's. The weeds move slowly, November's diatoms Stain the soft stagnant belly of the sea. Mountains, atolls, coral reefs, Do you desire me? Am I among the jellyfish of your griefs? I comb my sorrows singing; any doomed sailor can hear The rising and falling bell and begin to wish For home. There is no choice among the voices Of love. Even a carp sings.

When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.

Roland made a mental note to wash the boy's mouth with Irish Spring when they got back home to Ohio.

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

curtains of Serena's apartment—often

all the hours you grope along the night trail, all the way down to the valley so low, till you bless God for the little crumb of light that means a human home, and you ache and pray to get to that home, be it ever so humble, so you'll be safe in the light.

Kitaps?z bir ev üzücü olmal?. Daha üzücüsü ise; okuyan? olmayan kitaplarla dolu bir evdir.

Un banco donde sentarse o echar un sueño es la única patria que tiene mucha gente.

They are, essentially, a happy family, in their scream-at-each-other-from-the-other-end-of-the-house kind of way and I've always felt at home around them. Jews are a lot like Italians, except smarter.

not to walk about in the house in my outdoor dress

Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes terror, sometimes torpor, or stupid sloth: this is thy daily slavery.

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.