Quotes About Home

If anything meant home and strength and heart and culture more to him than the New York Public Library lions, he couldn't have named it.

Pretoria household's residence was already bannered and flowered and gilded to excess when Lesa arrived home, but that wasn't limiting the ongoing application of gaud.

She could not bear to feel England's earth and cobblestones under her shoes again, she thought. And if she could bear that, then she might never bear to leave.

Should we have stayed at home,wherever that may be?

Should we have stayed home and thought of here?

I often gave way to self-pity. "Do I deserve this? I suppose I must. I wouldn't be here otherwise. Was there a moment when I actually chose this? I don't remember, but there could have been." What's wrong about self-pity, anyway? With my legs dangling down familiarly over a crater's edge, I told myself "Pity should begin at home." So the more pity I felt, the more I felt at home.

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

It is ironic that the very ties that bind a husband and wife in theory- home and family- often serve to separate them in fact.

Someone once said to me,said Marguerite, that our home, our special country, is where we find liberation. I suppose she meant that it is where our souls find it easiest to escape from self, and it seem to me that it is that way with us when what is about us echoes the best that we are.

They did not know how vivid are the memories of the old and that only the young are housebound when they can't go out.

Home! It showed you its face when you sat quiet within it at that moment when day was passing to night, but it could only reveal its spirit, its eternal meaning, when you stood at a little distance, just turning to leave it or just returning to it, seeing it at that transition moment when a larger world was claiming or releasing you.

What an idiot she had been to try and make Le Paradis wholly her own. It was of the essence of home that it should hold out its arms to diverse personalities and gather them together into a harmonious whole. A house stamped with one personality only was surely more like the cell of a prisoner condemned to solitary confinement than a home.

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word. . . .that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

It was always a cheerful street, for the people who lived in it were the happiest sort of people: not too poor, the joy of life ground out of them by poverty, and not too rich, feeling burdened by possessions; and the dead had left some of their happiness behind them in the homes they had made, and the living were daily adding to it out of their own good cheer.

Yes." She had moved in for a fortnight in the summer, when Chris and Taryn had gone to France on holiday, to water the plants, keep an eye on things. "Well, come round whenever you like. I'll make the spare bed up later. And, Flora, it will be all right, okay? Everything will work out.

Was ich möchte, ist, jede Menge Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Weißt du, zu Hause geht das nicht mehr. Ich meine, so gut wie alles, was ich neu lerne, steht in einem Buch, was schon interessant ist, aber nicht dasselbe, denn wenn mir diese Sachen passieren würden, würde ich sie vielleicht ganz anders erleben.

Why do they call them daytime dramas, anyway? Shouldn't they be bedtime dramas? All anyone ever talks about is getting someone into bed! Plus if you're at home watching, you're probably watching in bed. And if you're like me, after an hour or two of watching all those sexy goings-on you forget the silly story entirely and fall asleep. Just like it's bedtime!

La enfermera no puso objeciones y lo cierto es que se tranquilizó no poco al advertir lo mucho que había cambiado Lewis ahora que esa fresca y descarada ya no estaba en casa, pues parecía predispuesta, con la mayor naturalidad, a culpar principalmente de la situación al miembro de su mismo sexo.

It might be well enough to wander if you've a place and people to come back to, but I tell you now there's no desolation like wanting to go home and truly not knowing where it is.

One of Crutzen's fellow Nobelists reportedly came home from his lab one night and told his wife

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. "Kill me!" it suggested as we passed by.